Symfony2复杂形式的最佳实践

Question

I have a complex database schema in my Symfony2 application, with a lot of entities linked to each others.

Consequently, my forms are also complicated : I can have many linked forms ; for example a "Cinema" can have an Address, but can also be linked to several "Movies" (with a button to add a new movie).

It's very very difficult to handle this using basic Symfony2 form Types ; I prefer to create my own form manually in a Twig view ; using a bunch of Javascript.

But I don't know how to handle the form submission ?

• Should I define a CinemaType and use it only to handle the form request (but not for creating the form view) ?
• Should I use a createFormBuilder() in my Controller to define the basic form fields and check them with the handleRequest() method ?
• Or, finally, should get all my _POST data and check them manually ?

Thanks :)

Answer 1

You can always create your own simple form class that implements the same methods as the Symfony2 ones:

• handleRequest
• validate
• createView

And so on.