Symfony Forms Tutorial

ℹ In this recording I show you how to create and submit a form in Symfony. You'll need forms of some kind in pretty much any application you build so here I cover all the essentials including how to protect your application with frontend / backend validation and security against cross site request forgery.
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Chapters:
3:24 - Creating a form for your entity
4:40 - adding stuff to your Form
5:10 - working in Controllers (but why didn't you use make:controller for this?)
6:40 - Sending the form to the template
8:10 - including/showing the formin your template
9:04 start of validation
10:00: Submission handling

[@disconnect3763]

lucky people who understand English. I’m very interested, but I don’t understand half of it, but I’m watching with pleasure. The text was written through a translator. Thank you very much to the author!

[@swastikagarwal8605]

excellent video, thanks a bunch, keep helping young developer like myself

[@d_sportello]

Thanks Gary! Very clear as always

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Very welcome

Thanks for this

[@kajetandziebaj6405]

Neato, thanks. I was able to make my first Symfony/doctrine web app store new users thanks to you.

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Nice work!

[@eTravelVlog]

Thanks for this tutorial ... i am was looking for 2 days to understand this

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Glad it helped 🤝

[@bakaleisanich]

It's very clear. Thank you.

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bakaleisanich]

@@GaryClarkeTech FYI as a beginner it will be interesting for me to see how to build a frontend

[@a.y5742]

Just dumping a few timestamps here that helped me
3:24 - Creating a form for your entity
4:40 - adding stuff to your Form
5:10 - working in Controllers (but why didn't you use make:controller for this?)
6:40 - Sending the form to the template
8:10 - including/showing the formin your template
9:04 start of validation
10:00: Submission handling
Will edit later, this is pretty much most stuff I needed

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Cheers...I really appreciate that! Will paste in the description also 🤝

[@michaelbica9294]

Thank you for delivering such great content!!🙌🍻

[@purajhei-rendape]

Hi Gary, thank you for this nice video about Symfony Forms. 👍😊 Only as a suggestion it would be great if you could create a short video about how to create a search form based on some entities too.

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Thanks Nicolas. A few people have suggested the same thing so I'll propbably do it later this year.

[@digitaluniverse9826]

Hi Gary you are doing amazing work. I have a question what I use custom html form and do you not configure csrf from the form type class or stuff. How can I use csrf directly in the HTML form and validate it in the controller. I am having trouble with it. Let's say I am try to create a simple post with HTML like form not using the formtype class

[@GaryClarkeTech]

This should be what you need:
symfony.com/doc/current/security/csrf.html#generating-and-checking-csrf-tokens-manually

[@parijke]

Hi Gary, since you're extending from AbstractController, it already has a render method calling the twig ins't it? So actually injecting the Envirionment $twig should not be needed?

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Yes..and I would usually just use $this->render as it's less code. I just inject twig in my recordings so that people know how it works under the hood.

[@bakaleisanich]

Can you please tell us about the use of DTO, there is often a bunch of this model with a form

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Thanks for the suggestion....I'll have a look at them next time I cover forms.

[@yourmememajesty]

Hey Gary, great video! I was wondering if you have any idea how to fix a problem I have came across... during the step at 1:58 when you make the migration file I get an error in my console ( SQLSTATE[08006]) and I have no clue how to fix it?

[@GaryClarkeTech]

You got the rest of the error?

[@boriskrasnov1672]

Can we add an Object type in symfony forms? If yes how we can get it?)

[@ETERNAL_VOID]

Great video really helped me understand forms. How would I validate a form using php attributes intsead of annotations?

[@GaryClarkeTech]

This should help. The docs now use attributes:
symfony.com/doc/current/validation.html#the-basics-of-validation

[@ETERNAL_VOID]

​@@GaryClarkeTech Thats great! Thanks. Excellent tutorial by the way, clear and concise.

[@mahmoudalhussain9291]

How to use forms in symfony which not related to entities ?

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Maybe just use a plain old html form?

[@TomiBorchert]

how to set labels? or how to hide them? Symfony Forms is setting label automatically for me but it's badly formatted, taking it directly from Entity.

[@GaryClarkeTech]

There's a label example here
symfony.com/doc/current/forms.html#creating-forms-in-controllers

[@TomiBorchert]

@@GaryClarkeTech Thanks man. I have not seen that. probab too quick to read thro when finding solution.