Question

This is probably an easy question but since I’m new with Symfony it’s still a bit confusing.

I have a Podcast table which has a user_id column that is related to my sfGuardUser table which has an id column. (A user creates a podcast and his ID is saved automatically in the Podcast table, creator_id column)

Then, I have a PodcastForm where by default doctrine created this widget in the BasePodcastForm.class.php:

'creator_id' => new sfWidgetFormDoctrineChoice(array('model' => $this->getRelatedModelName('sfGuardUser'), 'add_empty' => false)),

Which creates a dropdown in the podcast form.

In my PodcastForm.php, I have:

    public function configure() {

        $this->widgetSchema['creator_id'] = new sfWidgetFormInputText(array(),array('readonly' => 'true'));

       ...
    }

But the problem is that it shows me the ID of the user instead of the name. In the sfGuardUser.class.php file I created the __toString() method returning the user’s Username, but it stills shows the Id instead.

How could I do to show the Users’ Username instead of the Id in the Podcast form as a sfWidgetFormInputText?

Answer 1

I hope to understand well what you need… you could add as a new widget the username with a code like this:

public function configure()
{    
    $this->setWidget('creator_id', new sfWidgetFormInputHidden());
    if ($this->isNew())
    {
        $creator = sfContext::getInstance()->getUser()->getGuardUser();
        $this->object->setCreatorId($creator->getId());
        $username = $creator->getUsername();
    }
    else
        $username = $this->object->getsfGuardUser()->getUsername();

    $this->setWidget('creator_name', new sfWidgetFormInput());
    $widget = $this->getWidget('creator_name');
    $widget->setDefault($username);
    $widget->setAttribute('readonly', 'readonly');
    // if you need to move the widget use FIRST, LAST...
    $this->getWidgetSchema()->moveField('creator_name', sfWidgetFormSchema::FIRST);
    $this->setValidator('creator_name', new sfValidatorPass());
}

Maybe some adaptation is necessary because I use Propel.

Finally, it’s a bad practice to use the singleton sfContext::getInstance()->... inside a form, but this is another matter.

[update] As Flukey said in his comment, just passing the user object through as a form option allows to remove the need for the sfContext singleton completely.