Creating Autocomplete input field for Symfony based web form

Posted on Category:Symfony

This post describes steps required to create jQuery/AJAX input text field with autocomplete feature using Symfony php framework. It is assumed that you know how to create a web form, and install Symfony plugins, so that part won’t be explained here.
A Symfony plugin sfFormExtraPlugin is required, and, of course, jQuery (I’m using sfJqueryReloadedPlugin).

Symfony form conditional validation with PostValidators

Posted on Categories:PHP, MySQL, Symfony

This post describes how to use Symfony postValidators to create conditional validation of the form.
In this example I’m checking for user_type variable that can be set to person or firm value. If variable user_type has value person, the form should have one set of required fields, and another set for value firm.