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Bastien
Bastien

Reputation: 606

Customize form rendering {{ form(form)}} vs. {{ form_widget(form) }} in TWIG

I am trying to customize form rendering in Symfony (http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/form/form_customization.html). I manage to customize the "text" widgets but fail to customize the "submit" widget. I have been debugging this issue in numerous ways and came out to the following (more simple) roadblock:

My controller is very standard and looks like this:

$user = new user();
$form = $this->createFormBuilder($user)
->add('name','text')
//other text items...
->add('save','submit', array('label'=> 'Signup'))

$form->handleRequest($request);
if($form->is Valid()) {
//render the template...
}

Now, if I render the form in TWIG with

{{ form(form) }}

Everything works perfectly (the form gets submitted). But if I change this into:

{{ form_widget(form) }}

The "submit" button does not submit anything (which I guess means that either the button does not trigger anything or my form somehow would not be valid anymore).

Symfony documentation http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/form/form_customization.html seems to state that those two should render the form similarly. Could anyone give some guidance on where this issue could be coming from? Ultimately, I get the same issue when I try to use {{ form_widget(form.save) }} to customize the "submit" button. Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3424

Answers (1)

Adolfo Luzardo Cabrera
Adolfo Luzardo Cabrera

Reputation: 595

The Symfony Best Practices book say "Best Practice: Add buttons in the templates, not in the form classes or the controllers."

Upvotes: 1

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