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Laminas Forms

DoctrineModule and DoctrineORMModule provide an integration with laminas-form.

Creating Forms using Entity Annotations

With laminas-form, forms can be created using PHP8 attributes or DocBlock annotations. DoctrineORMModule extends this feature to support Doctrine-specific form elements (see next section).

First, create a form builder instance. By default, this uses the AnnotationBuilder from laminas-form, which uses DocBlock annotations. Alternatively, you can provide an AttributeBuilder to use PHP8-style attributes.

// using PhpDoc annotations$entityManager = $container->get(\Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager::class);$builder = new \DoctrineORMModule\Form\Annotation\EntityBasedFormBuilder($entityManager);// alternatively, to use PHP8 attributes$entityManager = $container->get(\Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager::class);$attributeBuilder = new \Laminas\Form\Annotation\AttributeBuilder();$builder = new \DoctrineORMModule\Form\Annotation\EntityBasedFormBuilder($entityManager, $attributeBuilder);

Given an entity instance, the form builder can either create a form specification or directly a form instance:

$entity = new User();// get form specification only$formSpec = $builder->getFormSpecification($entity);// or directly get form$form= $builder->createForm($entity);

Extension points for customizing the form builder are the event manager and the form factory, which can be accessed as follows:

// if you need access to the event manager$myListener = new MyListener();$myListener->attach($builder->getBuilder()->getEventManager());// if you need access to the form factory$formElementManager = $container->get(\Laminas\Form\FormElementManager::class)$builder->getBuilder()->getFormFactory()->setFormElementManager($formElementManager);