updating symfony form values after submitting

Patrick — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:46:36 +0000

One thing that’s made programming on symfony very aggravating has been dealing with the forms. Some sections of the forms are not well documented. The main issue that I have with this at work is that we deal with GPS coordinates and the users enter their coordinates in degree-minute-seconds format but the database saves them in degree-decimal format.

I had googled for a solution to this problem before, but had not found anything to guide me to the answer. The couple answers I had found were not very clear on getting it to work. Till I found this. Following these guidelines I got it to work on a test deployment of symfony. Code below:

class Blog extends BaseBlog {
 
	/**
	 * Initializes internal state of Blog object.
	 * @see        parent::__construct()
	 */
	public function __construct()
	{
		// Make sure that parent constructor is always invoked, since that
		// is where any default values for this object are set.
		parent::__construct();
	}
	/*
	 * this function overrides the BaseBlog::save function to allow
	 * changes to be made to the object before saving to the database
	 */
	public function save(PropelPDO $con = null)
	{
		$this->setCommentCount('11');
		return parent::save($con);
	}
 
}

Till Next Time

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updating symfony form values after submitting