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How to get a Doctrine2 Entity method from a Symfony2 Form in Twig

I'm in a Twig template, and I have a "form" variable that represents a Doctrine2 Entity Form.

This Entity has properties that are mapped into the form, but the Entity has also some methods that I would like to access from my Twig template.

I would love to do something like this:

{{ form.myMethod }}

or maybe something like this:

{{ form.getEntity.myMethod }}

but unfortunately it doesn't work.

How could I achieve what I need?

Solution

  • To access your entity from your FormView in a twig template you can use the following code

    {{ form.get('value') }}

    Where form is your FormView object. This will return your entity and from there you can call any methods on it. If you embed a collection of entities or a single entity in your form you can access it the same way

    {{ form.someembedform.get('value') }}

    or

    {% for obj in form.mycollection %}
  {{ obj.get('value').someMethod }}
{% endif %}