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Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development

You're reading from   Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development Design, develop, and deploy feature-rich, high-performance PHP web applications using the Symfony framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847194565
Length 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Getting Started with Symfony 2. Developing Our Application FREE CHAPTER 3. Adding the Business Logic and Complex Application Logic 4. User Interaction and Email Automation 5. Generating the Admin Area 6. Advanced Forms and JavaScript 7. Internationalizing our Global Positions 8. Extending Symfony 9. Optimizing for Performance 10. Final Tweaks and Deployment

Creating a simple form


We have seen how powerful forms in Symfony are, especially when bounded to a database table. Not all forms, though, will need to reference a database table. Instead, we can create a simple form for which the process is practically the same. The only difference is that we have to manually create the form class.

Just to give you an example, let's say we want to create a simple feedback form that contains three fields called name, email, and message. You would create the new form class at the same place where all of the other form classes are stored—in lib/form/—and perhaps, name the file as FeedbackForm.class.php. With this created, let's create the class as follows:

class FeedbackForm extends BaseForm
simple formname field{
public function configure()
{
$this->setWidgets(array(
'name' => new sfWidgetFormInput(),
'email' => new sfWidgetFormInput(),
'message' => new sfWidgetFormTextarea(),
));
//Add validation
$this->setValidators(array(
'name'=>...
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