Symfony2 - How to set, and get, options when using a Form Class?

Question

I am using Form Classes to build the various form in my project.

In the Entity Type file, for the buildForm function, there is a secondary parameter of \"array $options\

Answer 1

Pass the options through the forms class __construct method, like so:

use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;
use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilder;

class ProductType extends AbstractType
{

    private $options = array();
    public function buildForm(FormBuilder $builder, array $options)
    {
        $builder
            ->add('name')
            ->add('slug')
            ->add('reference')
            ->add('description')
            ->add('active_from')
            ->add('active_till')
            ->add('is_active')
            ->add('category', 'entity', array(
                'class' => 'DEMO\DemoBundle\Entity\Product\ProductCategory',
                'query_builder' => function(EntityRepository $er) {
                    return $er->createQueryBuilder('u')
                        ->where('u.section = :id')
                        ->setParameter('id', $this->options['id'])
                        ->orderBy('u.root', 'ASC')
                        ->addOrderBy('u.lft', 'ASC');
                },
                'empty_value' => 'Choose an option',
                'property' => 'indentedName',
            ));
    }

    public function getDefaultOptions()
    {
        return array(
            'data_class' => 'DEMO\DemoBundle\Entity\Product\Product'
        );
    }

    public function getName()
    {
        return 'demo_demobundle_product_type';
    }

    public function __construct(array $options)
    {
        $this->options = $options;
    }
}

And then you can do:

new ProductType(array('id'=>1));