[symfony-users] Re: Multiple objects' forms on one page

2009-09-27 Thread Steve the Canuck
Hi, I think the big problem I ran into is the symfony 1.2 book claims to be the primary reference but contains no documentation on forms. It was a whlie before I realized I had to read the forms book too! Regardless, the forms book doesn't have any examples on embedding. I had to experiment

[symfony-users] Re: Multiple objects' forms on one page

2009-09-27 Thread Dennis
Those pointers helped a lot. I found lots of articles now. It seemes, 'embed(ded) forms' and 'nest(ed) form(s)' are the correctly wording to get the most results for searches. Thank you very much. I will look at these resources now. :-) On Sep 27, 7:44 am, Steve the Canuck steve.san...@gmail.com

[symfony-users] Re: Multiple objects' forms on one page

2009-09-26 Thread Dennis
I'm almost there. The Symfony 1.2 book is OK, but the website on forms seems a lot better. (Almost there means ready to ask more questions :-) The learning curve is VERY steep on this thing. Not as bad as reading through 'Oracle Speak' documentation, but at least 40% as involved. If nothing

[symfony-users] Re: Multiple objects' forms on one page

2009-09-22 Thread Dennis
No 'bytes' huh? I bought a lot of books on symfony/doctrine, guess I'll look at those. PS, DON'T use 'char(acter)' fields in a Doctrine/Postgresql combination. The fields stay zero padded and when a field gets edited, it ends up too long, even if the original version, unedited, is saved.

[symfony-users] Re: Multiple objects' forms on one page

2009-09-22 Thread Richtermeister
Hey Dennis, you should be able to embed related forms in each other. Sounds like the userform should be your starting point, and in the configure function do something like: foreach($this - object - getAddresses() as $key = $address) { $this - embedForm(form_.$key, new AddressForm($address);