How to add a "Save and List" Action Button to Symfony Admin Generator Form.

To improve the workflow sometimes it may be better to redirect the user back to the list after the Save-action. This tutorial shows how to implement this in Symfony 1.3 and 1.4

First copy the "processForm"-function from the action.class.php in your cache-directory ( /cache/dev/modules/auto[Modulename]/actions/actions.class.php ) to your action.class.php and change the lines:

      if ($request->hasParameter('_save_and_add'))
      {
        $this->getUser()->setFlash('notice', $notice.' You can add another one below.');

        $this->redirect('@[Modulename]_new');
      }      
      else
      {
        $this->getUser()->setFlash('notice', $notice);

        $this->redirect(array('sf_route' => '[Modulename]_edit', 'sf_subject' => $[Modulename]));
      }

to:

      if ($request->hasParameter('_save_and_add'))
      {
        $this->getUser()->setFlash('notice', $notice.' You can add another one below.');

        $this->redirect('@[Modulename]_new');
      }
      else if ($request->hasParameter('_save_and_list'))
      {
        $this->getUser()->setFlash('notice', $notice);

        $this->redirect('@[Modulename]');
      }
      else
      {
        $this->getUser()->setFlash('notice', $notice);

        $this->redirect(array('sf_route' => '[Modulename]_edit', 'sf_subject' => $[Modulename]));
      }

Open the file /apps/[Appname]/modules/[Modulename]/lib/[Modulename]GeneratorHelper.class.php and add the function:

public function linkToSaveAndList($object, $params)
  {
    
    return '
';
  }

In /apps/[Appname]/modules/[Modulename]/config/generator.yml:

    ...
    config:
      ...
      form:
        actions:
           save_and_list: ~
           ...

Now there is a new button "Save and list" at the bottom of the Edit-form that will redirect the user to the list after saving the form. Maybe it would be useful to change the generator-classes to auto generate this button for every module.