Doctrine PHPCR-ODM Form Types

This bundle provides some handy form types for PHPCR and PHPCR-ODM specific cases, along with a type guesser that uses these types.

There is also a validator constraint for PHPCR-ODM documents.

Form Types

When editing associative multivalue fields, have a look at the BurgovKeyValueFormBundle.

This form type is suitable to edit associations of PHPCR-ODM documents. It works for ReferenceOne, ReferenceMany and Referrers but also for ParentDocument associations. Make sure to set the multiple option for ReferenceMany and Referrers, and to not set it for the others.

While Children is also an association, it makes no sense to edit it with this form type. Children are automatically attached to their parent. MixedReferrers could be shown as a disabled field but never edited, because this association is immutable.

This form type is equivalent to the entity form type provided by Symfony for Doctrine ORM. It has the same options as the entity type, including that the option for the document manager is called em.

A simple example of using the phpcr_document form type looks as follows:

use App\Document\TargetClass;

$form
    ->add(
        'speakers',
        'phpcr_document',
        [
            'property' => 'title',
            'class'    => TargetClass::class,
            'multiple' => true,
        ]
    )
;

This will produce a multiple choice select field with the value of getTitle called on each instance of TargetClass found in the content repository. Alternatively, you can set the choices option to a list of allowed managed documents. Please refer to the Symfony documentation on the entity form type for more details, including how you can configure a query.

If you are using SonataDoctrinePHPCRAdminBundle, you might want to look into sonata_type_collection. That form type allows to edit related documents (references as well as children) in-line and also to create and remove them on the fly.

phpcr_odm_reference_collection

This form type was deprecated in DoctrinePHPCRBundle 1.1 and will be removed in DoctrinePHPCRBundle 1.2. You should use the phpcr_document type instead, which can do the same but better.

This form type handles editing ReferenceMany collections on PHPCR-ODM documents. It is a choice field with an added referenced_class required option that specifies the class of the referenced target document.

To use this form type, you also need to specify the list of possible reference targets as an array of PHPCR-ODM ids or PHPCR paths.

The minimal code required to use this type looks as follows:

use App\Document\Article;

$dataArr = [
    '/some/phpcr/path/item_1' => 'first item',
    '/some/phpcr/path/item_2' => 'second item',
];

$formMapper
    ->with('form.group_general')
        ->add('myCollection', 'phpcr_odm_reference_collection', [
            'choices'   => $dataArr,
            'referenced_class'  => Article::class,
        ])
    ->end();

When building an admin interface with the SonataDoctrinePHPCRAdminBundle there is also the sonata_type_model, which is more powerful, allowing to add to the referenced documents on the fly.

phpcr_reference

The phpcr_reference represents a PHPCR Property of type REFERENCE or WEAKREFERENCE within a form. The input will be rendered as a text field containing either the PATH or the UUID as per the configuration. The form will resolve the path or id back to a PHPCR node to set the reference.

This type extends the text form type. It adds an option transformer_type that can be set to either path or uuid.

Validator Constraint

The bundle provides a ValidPhpcrOdm constraint validator you can use to check if your document Id or Nodename and Parent fields are correct.

YAML

1 # src/App/Resources/config/validation.yml
App\Document\Author:
    constraints:
        - Doctrine\Bundle\PHPCRBundle\Validator\Constraints\ValidPhpcrOdm
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PHP

1 // src/App/Document/Author.php

// ...
use Doctrine\Bundle\PHPCRBundle\Validator\Constraints as OdmAssert;

#[OdmAssert\ValidPhpcrOdm]
class Author
{
    // ...
}
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XML

1 <!-- Resources/config/validation.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping
        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <class name="App\Document\Author">
        <constraint name="Doctrine\Bundle\PHPCRBundle\Validator\Constraints\ValidPhpcrOdm" />
    </class>

</constraint-mapping>
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