Symfony Form Tree extension
This extension provide displaying doctrine tree entity types in synfony forms. It add a prefix to option names in select list that indicates tree level.
It is tested and should work with symfony 3.0+
If want to use this in symfony 2 look at "symfony-2" branch of this extension
<select name="..." data-level-prefix="-">
<option value="1">Motors</option>
<option value="2">Electronics</option>
<option value="3">-Cell phones</option>
<option value="4">--Samsung</option>
<option value="5">-Computers</option>
<option value="6">Fasion</option>
</select>
Instalation
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With composer.json
composer require yavin/symfony-form-tree:^1.0
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Add type guesser in your services file (optional):
<service class="Yavin\Symfony\Form\Type\TreeTypeGuesser"> <argument type="service" id="doctrine"/> <tag name="form.type_guesser"/> </service>
or if you use
yml
format:services: symfony.form.type_guesser.tree: class: Yavin\Symfony\Form\Type\TreeTypeGuesser arguments: [ "@doctrine" ] tags: - { name: form.type_guesser }
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Then add field to tree model. In this example
use Yavin\Symfony\Form\Type\TreeType; public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options) { $builder->add('category'); //extension will guess field type //or this is full example with default options: $builder->add('category', TreeType::class, [ 'class' => Category::class, // tree class 'levelPrefix' => '-', 'orderFields' => ['treeLeft' => 'asc'], 'prefixAttributeName' => 'data-level-prefix', 'treeLevelField' => 'treeLevel', ]); }
This extension assume that in tree model You have
treeLeft
andtreeLevel
fields. It can be changed in field options.Here is example tree entity.