I have a translatable entity using the translatable behaviour of doctrine2.
I'm trying to build a form that looks like this:
| French |English| Spanish |
+--+--------| |---------+------------+
| |
| name: [___my_english_name___] |
| |
| title: [___my_english_title__] |
| |
+------------------------------------------+
Order: [___1___]
Online: (x) Yes
( ) No
So basically, there are the order & online attributes of the object that are not translatable, and the name & title attribute that have the translatable behaviour.
In case my drawing is not clear: the form contain a 1 tab per locale that hold the field that are translatable.
The problem I have is that by default, Symfony2 bind a form to an entity, but the doctrine translatable behaviour force me to have one entity per locale. Personally the doctrine behaviour is fine (and I like it), but I'm unable to make a form that allow me to edit the entity in all the locale -- in the same form.
So far, I've the main form:
namespace myApp\ProductBundle\Form;
use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilder;
/**
* Form for the productGroup.
*/
class ProductType extends AbstractType
{
/**
* Decide what field will be present in the form.
*
* @param FormBuilder $builder FormBuilder instance.
* @param array $options Custom options.
*
* @return null;
*/
public function buildForm(FormBuilder $builder, array $options)
{
//Todo: get the available locale from the service.
$arrAvailableLocale = array('en_US', 'en_CA', 'fr_CA', 'es_ES');
//Render a tab for each locale
foreach ($arrAvailableLocale as $locale) {
$builder->add(
'localeTab_' . $locale,
new ProductLocaleType(),
array('property_path' => false, //Do not map the type to an attribute.
));
}
//Uni-locale attributes of the entity.
$builder
->add('isOnline')
->add('sortOrder');
}
/**
* Define the defaults options for the form building process.
*
* @param array $options Custom options.
*
* @return array Options with the defaults values applied.
*/
public function getDefaultOptions(array $options)
{
return array(
'data_class' => 'myApp\ProductBundle\Entity\Product',
);
}
/**
* Define the unique name of the form.
*
* @return string
*/
public function getName()
{
return 'myapp_productbundle_producttype';
}
}
And the tab-form:
<?php
namespace MyApp\ProductBundle\Form;
use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilder;
use invalidArgumentException;
/**
* Form for the productGroupLocale tabs.
*/
class ProductLocaleType extends AbstractType
{
/**
* Decide what field will be present in the form.
*
* @param FormBuilder $builder FormBuilder instance.
* @param array $options Custom options.
*
* @return null;
*/
public function buildForm(FormBuilder $builder, array $options)
{
$builder->add('name', 'text', array('data' => ???));
$builder->add('title', 'text', array('data' => ???));
}
/**
* Define the defaults options for the form building process.
*
* @param array $options Custom options.
*
* @return array Options with the defaults values applied.
*/
public function getDefaultOptions(array $options)
{
return array(
//'data_class' => 'MyApp\ProductBundle\Entity\Product',
'name' => '',
'title' => '',
);
}
/**
* Define the unique name of the form.
*
* @return string
*/
public function getName()
{
return 'myapp_productbundle_productlocaletype';
}
}
But as you can't see, I've no idea how to get the name and title values from the translated entity, and neither I know how to persist them once the form will be submitted.
