Symfony sfFormFilters - when would you use it?

Question

So I'm somewhat aware of what sfFormFilter can do, but I'm more interested in when you would use it, or why. For the most part I don't understand why I'd use form filters when I can just use the forms.

Is there a conceptual difference? Or is there a feature/functional difference in the two?

If this is mentioned in the jobeet tutorial then I've definitely missed it and someone just pointing me in that direction would be cool

Answer 1

sfFormFilter is the form that you see when you do php symfony doctrine:generate-admin ... and go to the list action of your new module, on the right side (depending on your admin theme).

This is the form used to filter your list. So you can edit this class if you're not happy with the generated form fields, need different widgets or change other configurations.

The example below is the form filter taken from sf_guard_permission/list: