Question

I have a simple form in Symfony 2.1 and when I submit it, I expect to see some error messages displayed on my form page because I denoted some fields as required.

However, the {{ form_errors(form.company_name) }} approach to show the error message of that particular field doesn’t work for me. It never displays the message. However, if I use {{form_errors(form)}}, all the error messages are displayed in one place. I need the individual {{form_errors(form.company_name)}} way of doing it to work. Did anybody experience this? What could be wrong? Here is my twig code:

<form method="post" {{ form_enctype(form) }} novalidate>
  <table>
  <tr>
    <td class="field-cell">{{ form_label(form.promo_referral) }}:&nbsp;</td>
    <td>{{ form_errors(form.promo_referral) }}{{ form_widget(form.promo_referral) }}</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="field-cell">{{ form_label(form.company_name) }}:&nbsp;</td>
    <td>{{ form_errors(form.company_name) }}{{ form_widget(form.company_name) }}</td>
  </tr>
  ...

Here is my relevant Controller code:

$registration = new ServiceVendorRegistration();
$form = $this->createForm(new ServiceRegisterForm(), $registration);

if ($request->isMethod("POST")) 
{
    $form->bind($request);
    if ($form->isValid())
    {
              // do something else
    }
}

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

Validation.yml makes the field required as follows:

properties:
        companyName:
            - NotBlank:
                message: You have to fill this

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I got the solution. Symfony doesn’t like it when I name my form fields using underscore to separate words, like first_name. It relies on camelCase naming convention. When I renamed my form fields correspondingly, it started working right.