Extending FOSUserBundles Registration to have different fields stored in different tables?

Question

I am new with Symfony2 and FOSUserBundle. I am using Symfony2 version 2.4.1. I would like to extend FOSUserBundle in a few ways. I want to add fields to the registration form, some fields i would like to add to the user table which contains username and password but i would like to add fields that get added to a different table. (I think i have to rewrite the registerController??)

Currently i have inherited FOSUserBundle into my own UserBundle. I have tried to simply add fields to the current registration form by following the documentation but i keep returning this error.

Could not load type "acme_user_registration"

// src/Fixie/UserBundle/Entity/User.php

    <?php

namespace Fixie\UserBundle\Entity;

use FOS\UserBundle\Entity\User as BaseUser;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 * @ORM\Table(name="fos_user")
 */
class User extends BaseUser
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    protected $id;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=255)
     *
     * @Assert\NotBlank(message="Please enter your name.", groups={"Registration", "Profile"})
     * @Assert\Length(
     *     min=3,
     *     max="255",
     *     minMessage="The name is too short.",
     *     maxMessage="The name is too long.",
     *     groups={"Registration", "Profile"}
     * )
     */
    protected $name;


    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        // your own logic
    }
}

I then add the name field to the form builder

// src/Fixie/UserBundle/Form/Type/RegistrationFormType.php

 <?php

namespace Fixie\UserBundle\Form\Type;

use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;
use FOS\UserBundle\Form\Type\RegistrationFormType as BaseType;

class RegistrationFormType extends BaseType
{
    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        parent::buildForm($builder, $options);

        // add your custom field
        $builder->add('name');
    }

    public function getName()
    {
        return 'acme_user_registration';
    }
}

I then go on to declare the custom form type:

// src/Fixie/UserBundle/Resources/config/services.yml

services:
    acme_user.registration.form.type:
        class: Fixie\UserBundle\Form\Type\RegistrationFormType
        arguments: [%fos_user.model.user.class%]
        tags:
            - { name: form.type, alias: acme_user_registration }

Then updated config:

 fos_user:
    db_driver: orm # other valid values are 'mongodb', 'couchdb' and 'propel'
    firewall_name: main
    user_class: Fixie\UserBundle\Entity\User
    registration:
        form:
           type: acme_user_registration

//AppKernel.php

<?php

use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Kernel;
use Symfony\Component\Config\Loader\LoaderInterface;

class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
    public function registerBundles()
    {
        $bundles = array(
            new Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\FrameworkBundle(),
            new Symfony\Bundle\SecurityBundle\SecurityBundle(),
            new Symfony\Bundle\TwigBundle\TwigBundle(),
            new Symfony\Bundle\MonologBundle\MonologBundle(),
            new Symfony\Bundle\SwiftmailerBundle\SwiftmailerBundle(),
            new Symfony\Bundle\AsseticBundle\AsseticBundle(),
            new Doctrine\Bundle\DoctrineBundle\DoctrineBundle(),
            new Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\SensioFrameworkExtraBundle(),
            new Fixie\WelcomeBundle\WelcomeBundle(),
            new Fixie\UserBundle\UserBundle(),

            new FOS\UserBundle\FOSUserBundle(),
        );

        if (in_array($this->getEnvironment(), array('dev', 'test'))) {
            $bundles[] = new Symfony\Bundle\WebProfilerBundle\WebProfilerBundle();
            $bundles[] = new Sensio\Bundle\DistributionBundle\SensioDistributionBundle();
            $bundles[] = new Sensio\Bundle\GeneratorBundle\SensioGeneratorBundle();
        }

        return $bundles;
    }

    public function registerContainerConfiguration(LoaderInterface $loader)
    {
        $loader->load(__DIR__.'/config/config_'.$this->getEnvironment().'.yml');
    }
}

// Fixie/UserBundle/UserBundle.php

<?php

namespace Fixie\UserBundle;

use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Bundle\Bundle;

class UserBundle extends Bundle
{
    public function getParent()
    {
        return 'FOSUserBundle';
    }
}

My main questions are:

1. Can anyone see an error with my current code?

2. In relation to extending the form to have multiple fields being stored in multiple tables. What are the step i have to take? Do i rewrite the logic of the controller and the form???

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

Ok.

In appKerenl.php you have

 new Fixie\UserBundle\UserBundle(),

But in service.yml

class: Acme\UserBundle\Form\Type\RegistrationFormType

Maybe it should be:

class: Fixie\UserBundle\Form\Type\RegistrationFormType

If in result of command app/console container:debug you can't see acme_user.registration.form.type it means that your service don't register and fos_user can't see you service, and can't find your form type.

My UserBundle store in Webmil/Joint/UserBundle. In UserBundle folder I have file WebmilJointUserBundle.php

My file:

<?php

namespace Webmil\Joint\UserBundle;

use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Bundle\Bundle;

class WebmilJointUserBundle extends Bundle
{
    public function getParent()
    {
        return 'FOSUserBundle';
    }
}

So I think that your problem in this file. Can you compare file and your file, and maybe you will find error.

Answer 2

With me it was that i had already a services.yml in app/config, so the one in my bundle was ignored. In the end I added the registry to this file

# app/config/services.yml
services:

    # [other already existing services]

    acme_user.registration.form.type:
        class: Acme\UserBundle\Form\Type\RegistrationFormType
        tags:
            - { name: form.type, alias: acme_user_registration }