EntityType

This form field type is used to transform user entered identifiers to Doctrine entities.

In contradiction to the EntityType provided by symfony/doctrine-bridge, this form field type does not retrieve all entities in order to display them in your forms, which is particularly useful when you are working with large data sets, or if you are using a custom search/select field that retrieves the data via an API.

Rendered as:

• input text field

Options:

• class
• entity_manager

Overridden options:

• compound

Parent type:

• FormType

Basic Usage

$builder->add('task', EntityType::class, [
    'class' => 'AppBundle:Task',
]);

Configuring as a form field type

YAML

DarkWebDesign\SymfonyAddonFormTypes\EntityType:
    arguments: ["@doctrine"]
    tags: [{ name: form.type }]

XML

<service id="DarkWebDesign\SymfonyAddonFormTypes\EntityType">
    <argument type="service" id="doctrine" />
    <tag name="form.type" />
</service>

Field Options

class

type: string required

The class of your entity (e.g. AppBundle:Category). This can be a fully-qualified class name (e.g. AppBundle\Entity\Category) or the short alias name (as shown prior).

entity_manager

type: string or Doctrine\Common\Persistence\ObjectManager default: the default entity manager

If specified, this entity manager will be used to load the entity instead of the default entity manager.

Overridden Options

compound

type: boolean default: false

This option specifies whether the type contains child types or not. This option is managed internally for built-in types, so there is no need to configure it explicitly.