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Asked: 2026-05-29T04:56:16+00:00

Going through the Symblog tutorial of Symfony2, While creating forms I came to a

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Going through the Symblog tutorial of Symfony2, While creating forms I came to a point where in I create Contact Entity (Entity/Enquiry.php) where I define some fields and some methods to access these fields. Then I create another folder Form/EnquiryType.php to build the form and then a contact.html.twig to display. I am unable to understand why we created 2 namespaces for Entity/Enquiry.php and Form/EnquiryType.php. when they have to deal with each other. Why dont we wrote both the classes within one folder or one file. And one more question. Do they belong to Controller or View part of MVC.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Form types are here to configure how data coming from objects (like Entities) are mapped to a form (and vice/versa).

    Entities should’nt be named “entities”, they should be just your buisness objects, that can be persisted through a layer called doctrine2.

    To answer you on separation of concerns,
    Entities are about M,
    while form Types are about user inputs (so the VC).
    View because it render a human interface to let user enter input,
    Controller because that’s where you handle the form lifecycle.

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