Error Solved

The problem

For one of my symfony based project, I required to create embedded forms.

I have following schema


propel:

Schema shown above is not complete, it just shows important fields only.
I generated model and form classes using propel:build-all task, and then embedded UserForm into RegistrationsForm as follow.


class RegistrationsForm extends BaseRegistrationsForm
{
public function configure()
{
unset($this['user_id']);
$user = $this->getObject()->getUser();
$userform = new UserForm($user);
$this->embedForm("User", $userform);
}
}


It works when updating an existing Registration, but when creating new registration, user_id is not set on new Registration, so no association is made between Registration and user and it gave exception of foreign key constraint violation.

The solution

So what was I doing wrong?


$user = $this->getObject()->getUser();
$userform = new UserForm($user);


This was the wrong way to create new UserForm. It works when updating an existing registration, because the user is already associated with Registration so $this->getObject()->getUser() will return an instance of User.

It won’t work when creating new Registration as $user = $this->getObject()->getUser(); will return null.
You need to check if User is null, then create a new user and set it on Registration.

Correct code


class RegistrationsForm extends BaseRegistrationsForm
{
public function configure()
{
unset($this['user_id']);
$user = $this->getObject()->getUser();
if(is_null($user)) {
$user = new User();
$this->getObject()->setUser($user);
}

$userform = new UserForm($user);
$this->embedForm(“User”, $userform);
}
}

That’s it.. it works like a charm.

Error when running symfony on wamp server.

Description:   I was trying to run the symfony PHP framework. I tried to build the model using command
php symfony propel:build-model.

And it gave error Could not perform XSLT transformation. Make sure PHP has been compiled/configured to support XSLT.

Environment: Wamp server 2.0, PHP 5.2.5, Apache 2.2.6.

Reason: PHP-XSL extension is not enabled. By default, Wamp server doesnt enable php-xsl php extension. and php-xsl is required.

Solution: Enable php-xsl extension.

left click on WAMP’s tray icon and than in PHP>PHP extensions select php-xsl and enable it.But there is one more php.ini file, which WAMP won’t change, we need to do it by hand, open: C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.5\php.ini and remove “;” from the line

;extension=php_xsl.dll

And then restart the server. Try to run the build command again.

Some useful links to get symfony running properly on wamp.

http://trac.symfony-project.org/wiki/SymfonyOnWAMP

http://anandshahil11.wordpress.com/symfony-php-framwework-installation-on-windows-wamp/