Question

This question is so basic, it’s kind of embarrassing, but here goes…

This is for Symfony 1.4 – I am trying to modify some auto-generated forms in a Symfony 1.4 app. The problem is, the widgets are rendered too small to display all of the text in the field. For example, in the database table, I have a field of type varchar(50), but the widget only displays 20 characters. I have tried to increase the size in the _form class e.g.

<td colspan="4"> <?php echo $form['email'] ?></td>

but this doesn’t appear to have any effect.

Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

You can achieve that in differents ways.

• Associate a class/style in the template:

You give some attributes to the render.

<?php echo $form->render(array('email' => array('class' => 'email'))) ?>
<?php echo $form['email']->renderRow(array('class' => 'email')) ?>

// Both generate HTML
<input type="text" name="contact[email]" value="" id="contact_email" class="email" />

• Associate the class/style in the widget:

You give some attributes to the widget.

$this->widgetSchema['email'] = new sfWidgetFormInput(array(), array('class' => 'email'));