Multiple forms of same type - Symfony 2

Question

So I have my controller action similar to this

$task1 = new Task();
$form1 = $this->createForm(new MyForm(), $task1);

$task2 = new Task();
$form2 = $this         


        

Answer 1

EDIT: Do not do that! See this instead: http://stackoverflow.com/a/36557060/6268862

In Symfony 3.0:

class MyCustomFormType extends AbstractType
{
    private $formCount;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->formCount = 0;
    }

    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        ++$this->formCount;
        // Build your form...
    }

    public function getBlockPrefix()
    {
        return parent::getBlockPrefix().'_'.$this->formCount;
    }
}

Now the first instance of the form on the page will have "my_custom_form_0" as its name (same for fields' names and IDs), the second one "my_custom_form_1", ...

Answer 2

create a single dynamic name :

const NAME = "your_name";

public function getName()
{
    return self::NAME . '_' . uniqid();
}

your name is always single

Answer 3

I would use a static to create the name

// your form type

    class myType extends AbstractType
    {
        private static $count = 0;
        private $suffix;
        public function __construct() {
            $this->suffix = self::$count++;
        }
        ...
        public function getName() {
            return 'your_form_'.$this->suffix;
        }
    }

Then you can create as many as you want without having to set the name everytime.

Answer 4

// your form type
class myType extends AbstractType
{
   private $name = 'default_name';
   ...
   //builder and so on
   ...
   public function getName(){
       return $this->name;
   }

   public function setName($name){
       $this->name = $name;
   }

   // or alternativ you can set it via constructor (warning this is only a guess)

  public function __constructor($formname)
  {
      $this->name = $formname;
      parent::__construct();
  }

}

// you controller

$entity  = new Entity();
$request = $this->getRequest();

$formType = new myType(); 
$formType->setName('foobar');
// or new myType('foobar'); if you set it in the constructor

$form    = $this->createForm($formtype, $entity);

now you should be able to set a different id for each instance of the form you crate.. this should result in <input type="text" id="foobar_field_0" name="foobar[field]" required="required> and so on.