DotCommerce's FastEntityBundle

Fast entity bundle for Symfony 2, used to generate dropdowns from entities faster than the default 'entity' formtype. To do this a new form type has to be generated for the entity used in the dropdown

Usage

You need to use the command line tool from Symfony (app/console) to generate the new form types. The syntax is simple:

$ app/console dotcommerce:generate:fastentity BundleName[:EntityName] [FieldName]

• BundleName is the name of you Bundle (i.e. MyBundle)
• EntityName (optional) is the name of your entity (i.e. MyEntity), if not defined it will generate form types for all the entities in the bundle
• FieldName (optional) the name of the field which is displayed in the dropdown, if not defined it will try to use the field 'name'

So if I want to generate a fast form type, for my entity Customer which is in my StoreBundle and I want to display the lastname of the customer in the dropdown, I need to use command:

$ app/console dotcommerce:generate:fastentity StoreBundle:Customer lastname

To use the newly generated form type you have to specify it manualy in a Form. The name for your new formtype is the entityname in lowercase prepended by the word 'fast', i.e. for the above generated Customer entity, the formtype is called 'fastcustomer'.

Last updates

2012-12-07

• First public version

Installation

Pretty simple with composer, add:

{
    require: {
        "dotcommerce/fastentitybundle": "dev-master"
    }
}

If you use a deps file, add:

[DotCommerceFastEntityBundle]
    git://github.com/TheDevilOnLine/Symfony-FastEntityBundle.git

Or if you want to clone the repos:

git clone git://github.com/TheDevilOnLine/Symfony-FastEntityBundle.git vendor/dotcommerce/fastentitybundle/DotCommerce/FastEntityBundle

Add the namespaces to your autoloader unless you are using composer

<?php
// File: app/autoload.php
$loader->registerNamespaces(array(
    'DotCommerce\\FastEntityBundle'      => __DIR__.'/../vendor/dotcommerce/fastentitybundle/DotCommerce/FastEntityBundle',
    // ...
));

Add DotCommerceFastEntityBundle to your application kernel

<?php
    // File: app/AppKernel.php
    public function registerBundles()
    {
        return array(
            // ...
            new DotCommerce\FastEntityBundle\DotCommerceFastEntityBundle(),
            // ...
        );
    }