Bolt Forms

Bolt Forms is an interface to Symfony Forms for Bolt. It provides a Twig template function and exposes a simplified API for extending as you need.

Template Use

Define a form in app/config/extensions/boltforms.bolt.yml and add the following to your template:

{{ boltforms('formname') }}

Template with data

You can also add parameters to the boltforms invocation in twig. In this case the value for the field "textfieldname" will be preset "fieldvalue"

{{ boltforms('formname', 'Some text before the form', 'After the form', { textfieldname: "fieldvalue"}) }}

Fields

Each field contains an options key that is an array of values that is passed directly to Symfony Forms. See the Symfony documentation for more information.

    fieldname:
      type: text
      required: true
      options:
        label: My Field
        attr:
          placeholder: Enter your details…
        constraints: [ NotBlank, {Length: {'min': 3}} ]

Choice Types

Choice types in BoltForms provide three different options for choice values. The standard indexed and associative arrays, and Bolt specific Contenttype record lookups.

  fields:
    array_index:
      type: choice
      options:
        choices: [ Yes, No ]
    array_assoc:
      type: choice
      options:
        choices: { kittens: 'Fluffy Kittens', puppies: 'Cute Puppies' }
    lookup:
      type: choice
      options:
        choices: 'contenttype::pages::title::slug'

For the Bolt Contenttype options choices, you just need to make a string with double-colon delimiters, where: 'contenttype' - String constant that always equals 'contenttype' 'name' - Name of the contenttype itself 'labelfield' - Field to use for the UI displayed to the user 'valuefield' - Field to use for the value stored

Redirect after submit

On successfull submit the user can be redirected to another Bolt page, or URL. The page for the redirect target must exist.

The redirect is added to the feedback key of the form, for example:

  feedback:
    success: Form submission sucessful
    error: There are errors in the form, please fix before trying to resubmit
    redirect:
      target: page/another-page  # A page path, or URL
      query: [ name, email ]     # Optional keys for the GET parameters

Note:

• target: — Either a route in the form of contenttype/slug or a full URL
• query: — (optional) Either an indexed, or associative array
  • [ name, email ] would create the query string ?name=value-of-name-field&email=value-of-email-field
  • { name: 'foo', email: 'bar' } would create the query string ?name=foo&email=bar

API

Below is a brief example of how to implement the Bolt Forms API. For a slightly more detailed example, see the Bolt\Extension\Bolt\BoltForms\Twig\BoltFormsExtension class.

// Get the API class
$forms = $this->app['boltforms'];

// Make the forms object inside the API class
$forms->makeForm($formname, 'form', $options, $data);

// Your array of file names and properties.
// See config.yml.dist for examples of the array properties
$fields = array();

// Add our fields all at once
$forms->addFieldArray($formname, $fields);

if ($app['request']->getMethod() == 'POST') {
    $formdata = $forms->handleRequest($formname);
    $sent = $forms->getForm($formname)->isSubmitted();

    if ($formdata) {
        // The form is both submitted and validated at this point
    }
}

Event Dispatcher Listener

use Bolt\Extension\Bolt\BoltForms\Event\BoltFormsEvents;

$this->app['dispatcher']->addListener(BoltFormsEvents::POST_SUBMIT,  array($this, 'myPostSubmit'));