Symfony2 - How to validate an email address in a controller

Question

There is an email validator in symfony that can be used in a form: http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/constraints/Email.html

My question is: How can I use this val

Answer 1

If you're creating the form in the controller itself and want to validate email in the action, then the code will look like this.

// add this above your class
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Email;

public function saveAction(Request $request) 
{
    $form = $this->createFormBuilder()
        ->add('email', 'email')
        ->add('siteUrl', 'url')
        ->getForm();

    if ('POST' == $request->getMethod()) {
        $form->bindRequest($request);

        // the data is an *array* containing email and siteUrl
        $data = $form->getData();

        // do something with the data
        $email = $data['email'];

        $emailConstraint = new Email();
        $emailConstraint->message = 'Invalid email address';

        $errorList = $this->get('validator')->validateValue($email, $emailConstraint);
        if (count($errorList) == 0) {
            $data = array('success' => true);
        } else {
            $data = array('success' => false, 'error' => $errorList[0]->getMessage());
        }
   }

   return $this->render('AcmeDemoBundle:Default:update.html.twig', array(
       'form' => $form->createView()
   ));
}

I'm also new and learning it, any suggestions will be appreciated...