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This bundle allows you to to create native forms on-the-fly right at your twig file without defining the form in controller/service.

Installation

Install from composer

composer require starx/symfony-native-form-builder

Enable the bundle

Enable your bunndle from your AppKernel.php

public function registerBundles() {
    $bundles = [
        ...,
        new Starx\SymfonyNativeFormBuilderBundle\StarxSymfonyNativeFormBuilderBundle()
    ];

    ...
    return $bundles;
}

Usages

In any twig file:

{%  
    set native_form = native_form_builder.getNativeFormView(
        path('your_route', {
            'id': user.id
        }),
        "GET"
) %}
{{ form_start(native_form) }}
    <input class="btn btn-sm" type="submit" value="Submit" />
{{ form_end(native_form) }}

This will create a native form without any previous declaration in controller/service.

Examples

1. Quick delete form In any twig file:

    {%
        set native_delete_form = native_form_builder.getNativeFormView(
            path('your_route_delete_action', {
                'id': user.id
            }),
            "DELETE"
    ) %}
    {{ form_start(native_delete_form) }}
        <input class="btn btn-sm" type="submit" value="Delete"
           onClick="return confirm('Are you sure?')"
        />
    {{ form_end(native_delete_form) }}
   

This will generate a quick delete form in your twig file with a single button and a CSRF token with DELETE http method, which is recommended way to delete a entity.

1. Generating a quick form based on a predefined form type when you want to show list of entities with a small inline form on the side

    <table>
        <thead>
            ...
        </thead>
        <tbody>
            {% for entity in entities %}
                {%
                    set native_update_form = native_form_builder.getNativeFormView(
                        path('your_enity_edit_action', {
                            'id': user.id
                        }),
                        "POST",
                        'AppBundle\\Form\\EntityType',
                        entity
                    )
                %}
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        {{ entity.id }}
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        {{ entity.name }}
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        {{ form_start(native_update_form) }}
                            {{ form_widget(native_update_form.value_field) }}
                            <input class="btn btn-sm" type="submit" value="Update" />
                        {{ form_end(native_update_form) }}
                    </td>
                </tr>
            {% endfor %}
        </tbody>
    </table>
   

This will generate quick update forms in your twig template file where you are showing list of entities showing only one field required to update.

Note:

I do understand that such use case in twig is discouraged, but other wise to solve such requirement you would have to

• loop through the entities in controller
• Manually create all the forms for each of those entities
• Pass them in a view/twig variables to your twig template file and
• Once again, loop through them again in twig file.

Instead of doing all this, as long as you don't over do it, simple use case as above should be justified.

Testing

Tests run through the Swan Docker container. All commands run from the Swan project root.

# All tests for this package
docker compose exec swan-php vendor/bin/phpunit vendor/starx/symfony-native-form-builder/tests

# Single test file
docker compose exec swan-php vendor/bin/phpunit vendor/starx/symfony-native-form-builder/tests/Path/To/FooTest.php

# Specific test method
docker compose exec swan-php vendor/bin/phpunit --filter testMethodName vendor/starx/symfony-native-form-builder/tests