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Symfony Filter Bundle

This bundle provides your Symfony 4 app some functions to filter and make lists in an easy way.

License MIT

Installation

Add the package to composer via console

Add the Bundle to config/bundles.php

Probably you can skip this step, because Symfony Flex do it automatically. But just in case, go to the file config\bundles.php and check that this line is in the code:

Extend the Repository of the entity that need to be filtered

For instance, in a entity called Article, with a repository that should be in src\Repository\ArticleRepository.php:

Now, the installation is finished and the Article repository will have new methods in order to find objects filtered by different fields and in different ways (like, greater than, ...)

Multiple repositories can be extended.

Usage

Start Filtering the Repository

Method getAll

To filter the objects method getAll from the repository extended should be called:

Parameters

• offset: The first result (for pagination).
• limit: The maximum number of results (for pagination).
• orderby: It's an array with the format:
  • [field => 'direction'].
  • Example: ['title' => 'ASC'].
  • So, the results can be sorted by multiple fields.

The parameter $filter

It's the only mandatory parameter, and is composed by an array of different filters with the format:

**The field is allow to have multiple values separated by a pipe | to search the same value in more than one field.

Type of filters

• BaseRepository::FILTER_EXACT: Compares that the field is equal to the value.
• BaseRepository::FILTER_LIKE: Compares that the field is like the value.
• BaseRepository::FILTER_IN: Search in array of values, the field.
• BaseRepository::FILTER_GREATER: Compares that the field is greater than the value.
• BaseRepository::FILTER_GREATER_EQUAL: Compares that the field is greater or equal than the value.
• BaseRepository::FILTER_LESS: Compares that the field is less than the value.
• BaseRepository::FILTER_LESS_EQUAL: Compares that the field is less or equal than the value.
• BaseRepository::FILTER_DIFFERENT: Compares that the field is different from the value.

Method getAllCount

If the number of the results is needed, the method getAllCount will return that number, just the pass the filters to the method.

Examples

So, after this explanation of the filters that can be used, if we need the articles where has the word tree in its title, we should code:

Easy? So, now, we are gonna find the articles with a tree in the title and a cat in the title or in the body:

Too many results? If it's up to you, we will sort the results by publishDate and filter them, because we are only interested in the current year:

Are there still many results? We should paginate it, we want to see the second page, showing 10 results per page:

If your are showing the results on a website, it's probably that you need the total number or elements in order to show it or to make a proper pagination, easy:

Method getDistinctField

Maybe the different values of a field are needed for filter a select, call the function with the name of the field as parameter.

Examples

We need all the different authors of the entity to put them on a select:

Filter using the Service

The bundle provide you a service: Pacolmg\SymfonyFilterBundle\Service\FilterService;

Within this service the methods of the repository getAll and getAllCount are joined, so the method getFiltered from the Service will return the Collection of Objects from the repository and the total number of elements to help the controller and view make the pagination.

The sort parameter has a different format in order to pass the field and the direction, avoiding code an array.

Examples

The last of the examples, coding from a Service or a Controller could be:

This example will return an array with two keys:

Filter from the Controller

To make a complete integration with a Website, the bundle provide another Service Pacolmg\SymfonyFilterBundle\Service\ExternalParametersService where there are some methods to get parameters from a Request.

Get Page and Limit

The method getPageAndLimit returns in an array the page and the number of elements per page. It gets the information from the parameters page and limit.

Examples

In the Controller we can code this and the variable $page and $limit will have the page and the number of elements per page, the minimum page is 1 and the maximum limit is 500.

list($page, $limit) = $this->externalParametersService->getPageAndLimit($request);

Get Filters

The method getFilters needs the $request and the $filters and will return the value for them, in order to make it work, we need to add a pair of fields to each filter:

Request Types

The types of the request_type can be:

• int
• string (default)
• bool
• array
• date

Examples

We have have a website with a search input that send the controller a parameter t with the value of the input, and we want to use this to look for a title like the parameter t:

http://mywebsite.com?t=tree

In the Controller we should code:

In the next example we have parameters for the pagination:

http://mywebsite.com?t=tree&page=2&limit=10

So, this will be the code in the Controller:

Filter from the View

The bundle wants to help you with the form in the view too, so you can include some fields that are predefined, or extend your complete form "@PacolmgSymfonyFilter/filters/layout.html.twig":

Inputs

The predefined fields are:

• Text Input: @PacolmgSymfonyFilter/filters/input.html.twig
• Numer Input: @PacolmgSymfonyFilter/filters/number.html.twig
• Datetime-local Input (Only works in chrome): @PacolmgSymfonyFilter/filters/date.html.twig
• Select: @PacolmgSymfonyFilter/filters/select.html.twig

Parameters

Each input has some common parameters:

• name (string, mandatory): The attribute name for the input.
• id (string, not mandatory): The id of the input, if it's not defined the id will be: *symfony_filterform*+name.
• class (string, not mandatory): The class of the input. If it's not defined will be form-control.
• placeholder (string, not mandatory): The placeholder for the input.
• print_label (boolean, not mandatory): Whether or not print the label of the field.
• label (string, not mandatory): The label of the field, if it's not defined and print_label is true, the label will be the placeholder. Label could be written in HTML.
• defaultData (string|array|int, not mandatory): The default value for the field.
• attrs (array): Optional attributes for the input.

The select field type will have another two parameters, one of them mandatory:

• options (array, mandatory): Array of options:
  • The format of the array options is: [ value => text, value => text, ...]
• multiple (boolean, not mandatory): Whether the select is multiple. False by default.

Examples

We still want to find the articles which title has a certain word that we will collect from an input in the view. And we also want them filtered between two dates and by status too, so an example of form could be:

This form will send the parameters just to catch them coding this:

Imagine you change your mind and prefer to get the articles that can be published or created, so we need to convert the status select to multiple:

And on the controller, change the type of the filter:

Pagination

So, at the Controller, Service and Repository is possible to get the results paginated. The bundle has also a twig to make pagination easy for development. Just include the '@PacolmgSymfonyFilter/components/pagination.html.twig' view and see the pages.

Parameters

The mandatory parameters are:

• nbPages (int, mandatory): The total number of pages.
• currentPage (int, mandatory): The current page.
• url (string, mandatory): The symfony route to redirect the pagination.
• params (array, mandatory): The parameters that the the route will need to work (id, q, ...).

The twig has some optional parameters too:

• nearbyPagesLimit (int, not mandatory): Number of pages around the current page.
  • The default value is 4.
• align (string, not mandatory): The value has to be: "end", "center" or "start" (based on bootstrap flex).
  • The default value is "end".
• classPageItem (string, not mandatory): Class for the "li" tag.
  • The default value is "page-item".
• classPageLink (string, not mandatory): Class for the links.
  • The default value is "page-link".
• classDisabled (string, not mandatory): Class for the disabled pages.
  • The default value is "disabled".
• classActive (string, not mandatory): Class for current page.
  • The default value is "active".

Examples

We have our article index page where we have the filters defined in the previous examples, now we want to show the number of the pages:

To avoid too much logic on the twig, we construct the parameters in the Controller:

In the view:

Hope that filter and paginate your entities with this bundle will not be a pain anymore.