Access Form values in my Symfony executeAction backend - forms

Question

So one of my pages consists of a quiz form that has several questions of type multiple choice, the choices are specified as radio buttons. I have been scanning the Symfony documentation to find out how to access form field values inputted by the user. Thing is, this isn;t a doctrine or propel based form, and neither do I require the values to be stored in the database, hence executing a $form->save() makes little sense to me. But I do require access to specific values of my form in my backend once the user hits submit.
Most of Symfony documentation that i have run into doesn't necessarily explain how this can be done. I would assume it would be something to the effect of :
$request->getParameter( 'radio_choices_id selected value ').
Thanks to all who read this and Cheers to the ones who respond to it :)
Parijat

Answer 1

Hm, it is very simple if I understand your question right)
For widget:
$this->widgetSchema['name'] = new sfWidgetFormChoice(array('choices' => array('ch_1', 'ch_2')));
Ok,in action:
$this->form = new FaqContactForm();
if ($request->isMethod('post')) {
$this->form->bind($request->getParameter($this->form->getName()));
if ($this->form->isValid()) {
$your_val=$this->form->getValue('name');
//or
$your_val=$this->form['name']->getValue());
}
}
In backend in protected function processForm(sfWebRequest $request, sfForm $form)
you have
$form->bind($request->getParameter($form->getName()), $request->getFiles($form->getName()));
if ($form->isValid())
{
$notice = $form->getObject()->isNew() ? 'The item was created successfully.' : 'The item was updated successfully.';
try {
$product = $form->save();
} catch (Doctrine_Validator_Exception $e) {
$errorStack = $form->getObject()->getErrorStack();
$message = get_class($form->getObject()) . ' has ' . count($errorStack) . " field" . (count($errorStack) > 1 ? 's' : null) . " with validation errors: ";
foreach ($errorStack as $field => $errors) {
$message .= "$field (" . implode(", ", $errors) . "), ";
}
$message = trim($message, ', ');
$this->getUser()->setFlash('error', $message);
return sfView::SUCCESS;
}
Before $product = $form->save(); try
$your_val=$form->getValue('name');
//or
$your_val=$form['name']->getValue());