Symfony forms post - forms

Question

I read about Symfony forms and i have simple question :
i Make 2 templates "test" and test1 . I want to post forms values of
test to test1 and after to show them with echo.
In test i put:
form action="<?php echo url_for('maraton/test') ?>" method="POST" />
<table>
<tr>
<?php echo $form?>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
my action is :
public function executeTest(sfWebRequest $request)
{
$this->form = new AthletesForm();
}
public function executeTest1(sfWebRequest $request)
{
$this->form = new AthletesForm();
if ($request->isMethod('post'))
{
$values = $this->form->getValues();
}

Answer 1

When creating a form you create it using an action :
public function executeContact($request)
{
$this->form = new sfForm();
}
Then to display that form you use a template
<?php echo $form->renderFormTag('foo/contact') ?> // this route "foo/contact" points to the action that will process the submit
<table>
<?php echo $form ?>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<input type="submit" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Then to process the form submit you use either the same action as above or a seperate action :
if ($request->isMethod('post'))
// this if statement would be added if you used the same action to
// create / process the submit of the form
{
$this->form = new sfForm(); // create an empty form object
$this->form->bind($request->getParameter('contact'));
// merges (binds) the post data with the form
if ($this->form->isValid()) // if the data is valid
{
// Handle the form submission
$contact = $this->form->getValues();
$name = $contact['name'];
// Or to get a specific value
$name = $this->form->getValue('name');
// Do stuff
// persist to database / save to file etc
$this->redirect('foo/bar');
}