$author->addBook(new Book());

$author['Books'][] = new Book();

Did anyone else experience something like that?

public function save(Doctrine_Connection $conn = null) {

$new = $this->isNew();

//You need to keep the state because when the parent::save() method will be called, it will not be new anymore.

$answer = parent::save($conn);

//Now you save it, and you keep the answer to return it after

if ($new)
    {

        $book = new Book();
        $book->setAuthorId($this->getId());
        $book->save();  

//If this was new, you create a new book and save it }

return $answer;

//And you return the answer for symfony to perform it’s job. }

Comments : this is still not perfect : you have an empty book by default, you still can delete it but then you will have to add one manually. But when you create an author, it’s because you have at least one book he wrote no ?

Hope this will help you, i took some time to find out how to do this (and now I realise i forgot something in my model…)

Bye

class AuthorForm extends BaseAuthorForm { public function configure() { $books = $this->getObject()->getBooks();

if(count($books) == 0){
    $book_new = new Book();
    $book_new->setAuthor($this->getObject());
    $bookForm = new BookForm($book_new);
    unset($bookForm['author_id']);
    $this->embedForm('book', $bookForm);
}

foreach ($this->object['Books'] as $index=>$book)
{
  $fieldName = 'book'.$book['id'];

  $form = new BookForm($book);
  unset($form['author_id']);
  $this->embedForm($fieldName, $form);

  $label = '<input type="image" src="/images/delete.gif" name="submit" value="delete_'.$book['id'].'">';
  if (count($this->object['Books']) -1 == $index)
  {
    // this is the last book
    $label.= '<input type="image" src="/images/add.gif" name="submit" value="insert">';
  }
  else
  {
    $label.= '<img src="/images/empty.gif">';
  }
  $label.= ' Book '.($index+1);

  $this->widgetSchema->setLabel($fieldName, $label);
}

} }

I made something quite similar, but when I modify some values in an embedded form and click on “save”, it doesn’t modify the values in my database.

Is it normal ?