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> wrote: > 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 with it a bit, but I got the embedding to work, but > a lot of this really involved looking through symfony source code > since a lot of stuff really isn't documented at all. This is a big > change from me coming from the J2EE world, and it certainly doesn't > hold up to out of box sales pitch that hooked me into symfony. > Nevertheless, I really have found the framework to do pretty much > everything I want - there just isn't enough documentation yet. > > If you do a search, I think you might find a post from me a couple of > months back where another user really helped me out a lot by giving a > comprehensive pseudocode example of what I needed to do. It may help > with your learning curve. > > Steve > > On Sep 26, 4:15 pm, Dennis <gear...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > 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 else, I will help leave a trail on this subject on the > > groups. > > > On Sep 22, 10:10 pm, Richtermeister <nex...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hey Dennis, > > > > you should be able to embed relatedformsin 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); > > > > } > > > > It gets a little tricker when you want to create a new user and new > > > addresses at the same time, since you also need to associate the > > > entities with each other before you embed theforms, but that's the > > > general idea.. feel free to ask about specifics once you get there. > > > > Daniel > > > > On Sep 22, 5:02 pm, Dennis <gear...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > Doctrine/Postgresql is not ready for prime time unless you want to > > > > work around the bugs. > > > > > On Sep 21, 4:36 pm, Dennis <gear...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > > > > If I have a table of 'users', with a table of 'addresses', and a table > > > > > of 'ramblings', how would I get either a combination of an address and > > > > > a userformson a pabe, or a user and a rambling form on apage. Any > > > > > automatic way, like in the jobeet tutorial for single table/objects? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---