Form Rendering Functions: form_*

Not sure if that's the correct part of the series, but I've got a problem with my Form.

$form = $this->container
			->get('form.factory')
			->createNamedBuilder('form', FormType::class, null, $defaultOptions)
			->add('HOOK_URL', HiddenType::class, ['block_prefix' => '', 'data' => $this->generateUrl('launcher', [], UrlGeneratorInterface::ABSOLUTE_URL)])
			->setAction($host.$uri)
			->setMethod('POST')
			->getForm();

This will render to <input type="text" id="form_HOOK_URL" name="form[HOOK_URL]" but I need it to be <input type="text" id="form_HOOK_URL" name="HOOK_URL" (without the form[] part in the name)

The form submit IS NOT handled by the controller that created the form, it's a complete different URL/endpoint that doesn't "understand" from[HOOK_URL], only HOOK_URL.

Hi Ryan and team,

my comment is more related to this course than video but I am looking for help or suggestions.

We have clients who call the same thing with different names. It is just lets say 5 fields out of 100 currently but as application grow there will be more and more of such fields. For simplicity I will just throw here similar example. Imagine you have an entity called Dog and you are allowing your users to enter their name and age and you will also generate onscreen report and pdf copy.

1st client wants to see on the input screen Enter dog's name & age and 2nd one wants to see Enter puppy's name & age.

So currently I have in code something like If the client is 1 then label = dog else puppy.

I am wondering if I could somehow use translation for this otherwise above code is randomly placed into controllers, form types and templates.

I would like to achieve something like I have list of all those 100 fields in text file and once the client and label is detected I have prepared a translation for it but not per language but per client if that make sense. Issue is that it needs to be not just labels in forms but also readonly version or in script that is generating pdfs of your entities so as you can imagine currently it is still manageable since it is just 5 fields but I am afraid it will be more an issue once we will get more clients and they call internally same thing differently then other clients.

How would you handle this?

Hi Ryan and team,

my comment is more related to this course than video but I am looking for help or suggestions.

We have clients who call the same thing with different names. It is just lets say 5 fields out of 100 currently but as application grow there will be more and more of such fields. For simplicity I will just throw here similar example. Imagine you have an entity called Dog and you are allowing your users to enter their name and age and you will also generate onscreen report and pdf copy.

1st client wants to see on the input screen Enter dog's name & age and 2nd one wants to see Enter puppy's name & age.

So currently I have in code something like If the client is 1 then label = dog else puppy.

I am wondering if I could somehow use translation for this otherwise above code is randomly placed into controllers, form types and templates.

I would like to achieve something like I have list of all those 100 fields in text file and once the client and label is detected I have prepared a translation for it but not per language but per client if that make sense. Issue is that it needs to be not just labels in forms but also readonly version or in script that is generating pdfs of your entities so as you can imagine currently it is still manageable since it is just 5 fields but I am afraid it will be more an issue once we will get more clients and they call internally same thing differently then other clients.

How would you handle this?

Hi,

I have weird behaviour.

I am using 2 forms on 1 twig template.

I will create 2 forms in controller and pass them to template.

<br />'form1' => form1->createView(),<br />'form2' => form2->createView()<br />
then in controller when the forms are submitted i check (there are being check in one route)
if form 1 is valid then do this and that
if form 2 is valid then do this and that

everything works so far ok.

Now if I submit only form1 with some blank fields so it will return validation errors, it will also throw errors on form2

so in my twig if I check
<br />form1.vars.valid will return true -> as expected<br />form2.vars.valid will return true -> never been submitted<br />

so I decided to check if in twig if form has been submitted and I added
<br />form1.vars.valid and form1.vars.sibmitted -> returns true as expected<br />form2.vars.valid and form2.vars.submitted ->returns true it hasnt been submitted.<br />

so the question is why are both forms being submitted if I submit only 1

to be added in twig I am properly starting and ending each form

`
{{ form_start(form1) }}
{{form_widget(form1)}}
<button type="submit">.....</button>
{{form_end(form1)}}

{{ form_start(form2) }}
{{form_widget(form2)}}
<button type="submit">.....</button>
{{form_end(form2)}}
`