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Andrew Grudin 6 years ago

I found the issue.

WAS OK BEFORE(sf 2.8):
$builder->add('title', 'text')
->add('samsCharacterName', 'text')
->add('isMainCharacter', 'checkbox', array(
'required' => false
))
->add('rating', 'integer')
->add('releasedAt', 'date', array(
'widget' => 'single_text',
));

SHOULD BE (from sf 2.8):

use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\DateType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\CheckboxType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\IntegerType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\TextType;
$builder->add('title', TextType::class)
->add('samsCharacterName', TextType::class)
->add('isMainCharacter', CheckboxType::class, array(
'required' => false
))
->add('rating', IntegerType::class)
->add('releasedAt', DateType::class , array(
'widget' => 'single_text',
));

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Andrew Grudin 6 years ago

When I tried to reload my new form I got exeption:
Expected argument of type "string", "AppBundle\Form\MovieType" given
I have changed :
$form = $this->createForm(new MovieType(), $movie);
for:
$form = $this->createForm(MovieType::class, $movie);
Got new:
Could not load type "text"
500 Internal Server Error - InvalidArgumentException
Your comments suggestions would be greatly appreciated

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weaverryan SFCASTS Andrew Grudin 6 years ago

Hey Andrew!

You've already got the right fix actually! This tutorial was on Symfony 2, where we did things like "new MovieType" and ->add('someField', 'text'). In Symfony 3, change it to MovieType::class (you already did this) *and* make a similar change in your form class - e.g. ->add('someField', TextType::class); That'll fix things :).

Cheers!

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weaverryan SFCASTS weaverryan 6 years ago

I literally wrote this and then saw you solved the issue yourself :). Thanks for posting the detailed update! https://knpuniversity.com/s...

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Graymath technology 5 years ago

Does this still work. I am using Ubuntu 20.04 with latest version of PhpStorm with Symfony5 and I initiated the project with the full option
symfony new --full my_project.

I don't see any of the options in the new menu. Just one option for symfony service and when click on that nothing happens as well. I uninstalled and re-installed the symfony support plugin and enabled it as well for the project.

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Graymath technology 5 years ago edited

Hey Graymath technology

I believe Symfony plugin people dropped that feature because I can't do it either but the good news is you don't need it anymore, you can generate any boiler plate file by using the MakerBundle. It's a super handy bundle that you should give it a try https://symfony.com/doc/cur...

Cheers!

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Andrew Grudin 6 years ago

I did all as you do, but when my form is rendered the field 'Released at' does not display

'mm/dd/yyyy' inside , just empty. Could you give me, please, any hint how to fix it.

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weaverryan SFCASTS Andrew Grudin 6 years ago

Hey Andrew!

You're probably doing it correctly :). Symfony renders this fields as an input type="date" field. *Some* browsers (like mine - Chrome) are smart enough to turn that into a "smart" field - that's what you're seeing. I (and Symfony) did *not* add that mm/dd/yyyy - my browser is adding that because it knows this is a date field. If you try Chrome, you will likely see that same behavior. But even if you don't, you can just fill in the field with something like 06/20/2000 and it will submit. If you'd like to have a fancy date picker in *all* browsers, you should use a JavaScript library to help the user fill in the right date (e.g. 06/20/2000).

Cheers!

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Andrew Grudin weaverryan 6 years ago

Probably my Google Chrome is silly and don't displayt mm/dd/yyyy either.
From your point of view , is Chrome more advanced for web development now then Fox?
Best regards!

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weaverryan SFCASTS Andrew Grudin 6 years ago

Ah, so strange! I mostly prefer Chrome because I like its native web inspector better! I *do* (for whatever reason) see it used by most developers, probably with Safari second.

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fabienne 6 years ago

Hello, first thanks to Andrew for the solution with the 500 error, I had the same problem.

I have another question, I have bootstrap under web/vendors/bootstrap, but the code has no effect. Inspect shows that the bootstrap classes are there, but the page looks the same as before, is it a path problem?
thanks.

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fabienne 6 years ago

Me again and sorry! Of course I needed to add the reference to the css in base.html.twig....

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Raphael Schubert 6 years ago

Hello there!!! i`m in love with Symfony and KNPU... I have a question... There is a way to render the fields of FORM in columns? like [ 'class'=>'col-md-3' ]??? I`m not founding where to change the variables... thanks!!!

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weaverryan SFCASTS Raphael Schubert 6 years ago

Hi Raphael!

Ah, thank you so much!!!! I'm glad you love both things :p.

I might have an easy answer to your question: have you tried the bootstrap_3_horizontal_layout.html.twig form theme? It organizes labels and fields into columns: https://github.com/symfony/...

You can configure to use this form theme in the same way as the other bootstrap form theme.

Cheers!

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Richard 6 years ago

Help! I'm not getting completion on the add type fields. eg in $builder->add('title','text') "text" is not completing. What is missing? So much going on so quickly I'm not sure what I might have missed. I tab completed the add call so assume all the right "usages" are in. But all I have are:

namespace AppBundle\Form;

use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;
use Symfony\Component\OptionsResolver\OptionsResolver;

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Richard Richard 6 years ago

OK. the code below doesn't match the video. The correct syntax for 3.2 is : $builder->add('title',TextType::class) which is in the code forms but not in the video. Or am I going doolally? ;)

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Victor SFCASTS Richard 6 years ago edited

Yo Richard ,

Yes, you're right, code blocks related to the Symfony forms mismatch the video. We updated code blocks to use the new Symfony 3 syntax, but not the video. Btw, we have a note about it at the beginning of this article: https://knpuniversity.com/s... ;)

Cheers!

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Victor SFCASTS Richard 6 years ago edited

Hey Richard ,

If you're on Symfony 3 - you should use `TextType::class` as you figured out below by yourself. The 'text' way is deprecated and doesn't work since Symfony 3.

Cheers!

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Cédric Gournay 6 years ago edited

The same exception was thrown when I tried to reload the form page (expected argument of type string ...).
I finally found a solution to fix it.

I REPLACED >> "$form = $this->createForm(new MovieType(), $movie);"
BY >> "form = $this->get('form.factory')->create(MovieType::class, $movie);"

I also used fully-qualified class name in the buildForm function (as described by there ) .

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weaverryan SFCASTS 6 years ago

Yep, you guys are absolutely right - the "new MovieType" was one of the changes that was deprecated in 2.x and removed for Symfony 3.x (replaced with the MoveType::class form). That's the key change to make :).

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Paulius 6 years ago

I'm using PHPStorm on Ubuntu OS.

When I'm trying to create new Form or Controller nothing happens when I click on 'New->Form' or 'New->Controller'

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weaverryan SFCASTS Paulius 6 years ago

Hey Paulius!

So, you have the New->Form and New->Controller options, but they don't do anything when you click them? Or are the options missing? If clicking them does nothing, that sounds like some sort of a bug with the Symfony plugin.

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Paulius weaverryan 6 years ago

Yes, I have the options but they do nothing :(

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weaverryan SFCASTS Paulius 6 years ago

Hmm, I've never seen that before, unfortunately :(. You could try re-installing the plugin/phpstorm - it's the best advice I can give!

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Andrew Grudin 6 years ago

I have PHPstorm on my windows7 and symfony 3.
When I try (Ctrl + click) over 'widget' I do not get to Core/Type/DateType.php as you do but see "Can't find declaration to go to".
All the same for 'integer'. What can it be?

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weaverryan SFCASTS Andrew Grudin 6 years ago

Hi Andrew!

Do you have the Symfony plugin installed and (more importantly) enabled for this project? That's the most likely cause - let me know! *Sometimes* things won't work, even when you have the plugin installed+enabled, but I don't have problems with forms usually.

Cheers!

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This is an older tutorial using an older version of PhpStorm. However, most of the tricks we show in PhpStorm still work beautifully.

Symfony 2

What PHP libraries does this tutorial use?

// composer.json
{
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.3.9, <7.3.0",
        "symfony/symfony": "2.8.*", // v2.8.15
        "doctrine/orm": "^2.4.8", // v2.4.8
        "doctrine/dbal": "<2.5", // v2.4.5
        "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "~1.4", // 1.6.4
        "symfony/assetic-bundle": "~2.3", // v2.8.1
        "symfony/swiftmailer-bundle": "~2.3,>=2.3.10", // v2.4.2
        "symfony/monolog-bundle": "^3.0.2", // v3.0.2
        "sensio/distribution-bundle": "~5.0", // v5.0.17
        "sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "^3.0.2", // v3.0.18
        "incenteev/composer-parameter-handler": "~2.0" // v2.1.2
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "sensio/generator-bundle": "~3.0", // v3.1.2
        "symfony/phpunit-bridge": "~2.7" // v2.8.15
    }
}

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	class MovieType extends AbstractType
	{
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	public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
	{
	$resolver->setDefaults(array(
	'data_class' => 'AppBundle\Entity\Movie'
	));
	}
	}

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	use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\CheckboxType;
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	use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\TextType;
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	class MovieType extends AbstractType
	{
	public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
	{
	$builder->add('title', TextType::class)
	->add('samsCharacterName', TextType::class)
	->add('isMainCharacter', CheckboxType::class, array(
	'required' => false,
	))
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	}
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	}

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	use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\DateType;
	use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\IntegerType;
	use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\TextType;
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	class MovieType extends AbstractType
	{
	public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
	{
	$builder->add('title', TextType::class)
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	->add('rating', IntegerType::class)
	->add('releasedAt', DateType::class, array(
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	));
	}
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	}

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	namespace Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type;
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	class DateType extends AbstractType
	{
	const DEFAULT_FORMAT = \IntlDateFormatter::MEDIUM;
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	public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
	{
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	$resolver->setDefaults(array(
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	'widget' => 'choice',
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	));
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	$resolver->setAllowedValues('widget', array(
	'single_text',
	'text',
	'choice',
	));
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	}
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	}

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	use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\DateType;
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	use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\TextType;
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	class MovieType extends AbstractType
	{
	public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
	{
	$builder->add('title', TextType::class)
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	->add('releasedAt', DateType::class, array(
	'widget' => 'single_text'
	));
	}
Show Lines	// ... lines 27 - 33
	}

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What PHP libraries does this tutorial use?

	<?php

	namespace AppBundle\Form;

	use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
	use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;
	use Symfony\Component\OptionsResolver\OptionsResolver;

	class MovieType extends AbstractType
	{
	public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
	{

	}

	public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
	{

	}
	}

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	use AppBundle\Form\MovieType;
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	class MovieController extends Controller
	{
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	public function newAction()
	{
	$movie = new Movie();

	$form = $this->createForm(MovieType::class, $movie);

	return $this->render('movie/new.html.twig', array(
	'quote' => 'If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions. (Pulp Fiction)',
	'form' => $form->createView()
	));
	}
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	}

	{{ form_start(form) }}
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	{{ form_end(form) }}

	{{ form_start(form) }}
	{{ form_row(form.title) }}
	{{ form_row(form.samsCharacterName) }}
	{{ form_row(form.isMainCharacter) }}
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	{{ form_end(form) }}

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	twig:
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	form_themes:
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	{{ form_start(form) }}
	{{ form_row(form.title) }}
	{{ form_row(form.samsCharacterName) }}
	{{ form_row(form.isMainCharacter) }}
	{{ form_row(form.rating) }}
	{{ form_row(form.releasedAt) }}

	<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Save</button>
	{{ form_end(form) }}