EasyAdmin3: clickable table-row (link to EDIT-page)

Question

I don't like the "edit"-button at the end of each entity on the INDEX-Page (EasyAdmin 3 / symfony 5) and I would like to have the table-row clickable and it shall send me directly to the EDIT-page.

I guess the solution must be using Javascript, so I started:

PHP-file

class PersonCrudController extends AbstractCrudController {
   [...]
   
    public function configureFields(string $pageName): iterable {
        [...]
        yield TextField::new('fullName',  'Name')->onlyOnIndex()->setCssClass('js-row-action');
        [...]
    }

   [...]
}

javascript-file

// call functions once page is loaded
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
    makeTableRowClickable();
});

function makeTableRowClickable() {
    let elements = document.getElementsByClassName('js-row-action');

    for (let i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
        let td = elements[i];
        let tr = td.parentNode;

        tr.addEventListener("click", function (e) {
            alert('click the row, Jack!');
        });
    }
}

open questions

1. How do I generate the URL of the EDIT-page?
2. How can I set a data attribute with the URL into any (hidden) field so that I can use it in the javascript?

Any ideas? Many thanks!

Answer 1

Here is my solution (you have to update the twig-template)

index.html.twig (my overriding file)

identify the URL for the edit-page and add the link as href-attribute into the TR-tag

{#
    EXAMPLES:
    templates/bundles/EasyAdminBundle/layout.html.twig      ===> extends '@!EasyAdmin/layout.html.twig'
    templates/bundles/EasyAdminBundle/crud/index.html.twig  ===> extends '@!EasyAdmin/crud/index.html.twig'
#}

{# DO THIS: the '!' symbol tells Symfony to extend from the original template #}
{% extends '@!EasyAdmin/crud/index.html.twig' %}


{% block table_body %}

    {% for entity in entities %}
        {% if not entity.isAccessible %}
            {% set some_results_are_hidden = true %}
        {% else %}

            {# generation of the EDIT-link #}
            {% set editUrl = ea_url()
                    .setController(ea.crud.controllerFqcn)
                    .setAction('edit')
                    .setEntityId(entity.primaryKeyValue) %}


            {# add href-attribute and insert the URL #}
            <tr data-id="{{ entity.primaryKeyValueAsString }}" href="{{ editUrl }}">

[...]

{% endblock table_body %}

javasript-file

identify the href-attribute and send user to url

// call functions once page is loaded
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
    makeTableRowClickable();
});

function makeTableRowClickable() {
    let elements = document.getElementsByClassName('js-row-action');

    for (let i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
        let td  = elements[i];
        let tr  = td.parentNode;
        let url = tr.getAttribute('href');

        tr.addEventListener("click", function (e) {
            location.href = url;
        });
    }
}

crud-controller (php)

add a css-class that can be catched by javascript

class PersonCrudController extends AbstractCrudController {
   [...]
   
    public function configureFields(string $pageName): iterable {
        [...]
        yield TextField::new('fullName',  'Name')->onlyOnIndex()->setCssClass('js-row-action');
        [...]
    }

   [...]
}

dashboard-controller (php)

link the javascript-file to the dashboard-controller to have it as default everywhere

class DashboardController extends AbstractDashboardController
{
    [...]
    public function configureAssets(): Assets {
        $assets = parent::configureAssets();
        $assets->addJsFile('js/row_clickable.js');

        return $assets;
    }
    [...]
}

Have fun!