Question

I read about Symfony forms and i have simple question :
i Make 2 templates “test” and test1 . I want to post forms values of
test to test1 and after to show them with echo.
In test i put:

form action="<?php echo url_for('maraton/test') ?>" method="POST" />
    <table> 
     <tr>
        <?php echo $form?>
     </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="2">
          <input type="submit" value="submit" />
        </td>
      </tr>
     </table>
 </form>  

my action is :

public function executeTest(sfWebRequest $request)
  {
     $this->form = new AthletesForm();
  }

  public function executeTest1(sfWebRequest $request)
     {
        $this->form = new AthletesForm();

           if ($request->isMethod('post'))
             {
                $values = $this->form->getValues();
              }

Answer 1

When creating a form you create it using an action :

public function executeContact($request)
{
  $this->form = new sfForm();
}

Then to display that form you use a template

<?php echo $form->renderFormTag('foo/contact') ?> // this route "foo/contact" points to the action that will process the submit
  <table>
    <?php echo $form ?>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2">
        <input type="submit" />
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

Then to process the form submit you use either the same action as above or a seperate action :

if ($request->isMethod('post')) 
// this if statement would be added if you used the same action to 
// create / process the submit of the form 
{
  $this->form = new sfForm(); // create an empty form object
  $this->form->bind($request->getParameter('contact')); 
  // merges (binds) the post data with the form
  if ($this->form->isValid()) // if the data is valid
  {
    // Handle the form submission
    $contact = $this->form->getValues();
    $name = $contact['name'];

    // Or to get a specific value
    $name = $this->form->getValue('name');

    // Do stuff
    // persist to database / save to file etc
    $this->redirect('foo/bar');
  }