Question

I have a module called main which is my default module and a module called song.

I want to put into my main module an “add form” of my song module.

I don’t know if I have to use component, how and where to process the form.

Could you please help me ?

Answer 1

Have you checked the documentation? Specially this part of the doc?

It covers the form system by using a basic contact form:

• You have the controller (the actions.class.php inside your main module) which create an instance of the form and handle the submission (validation, save, etc ..)
• Then the template (contactSuccess.php), which display the form

The main difference is that you probably have a model called Song, so you will have to use the SongForm instead of creating a new one (using new sfForm()). For this part, you can see, on the same documentation page, the part Forms Based on a Model which cover the case of an article model.

Edit:

A step by step:

In your main/actions/actions.class.php:

public function executeIndex($request)
{
  $this->form = new SongForm();
  if ($request->isMethod('post'))
  {
    $this->form->bind($request->getParameter('song'));
    if ($this->form->isValid())
    {
      $song = $this->form->save();

      $this->getUser()->setFlash('notice', 'Thank you, the song has been added');

      $this->redirect('main/index');
    }
  }
}

In your template, main/templates/indexSuccess.php:

<?php if ($sf_user->hasFlash('notice')): ?>
  <div class="flash_notice"><?php echo $sf_user->getFlash('notice') ?></div>
<?php endif ?>

<?php echo $form->renderFormTag('main/index') ?>
  <table>
    <?php echo $form ?>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2">
        <input type="submit" />
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

And you’re done.

I really encourage you to read the whole Jobeet tutorial. You will learn lots of things. Basically every thing I described here, is in this tutorial.

For the sf_guard_user field, you should redefine it as hidden, and then set a default value with the current connected user.

Create a new form: /lib/form/CustomSongForm.class.php

<?php

class CustomSongForm extends SongForm
{
  public function configure()
  {
    parent::configure();

    $this->widgetSchema['sf_guard_user_ud'] = new sfWidgetFormInputHidden();
  }
}

Then you can define the default, like you said:

}$this->form->setDefault('sf_guard_user_id', $this->getUser()->getId());