Symfony: problem saving a form object - orm

Question

I am using SF 1.4.8 with Propel ORM for a project. I have an action that allows a user to save their user profile. It looks something like this:
public function executeEditUser(sfwebRequest $request)
{
// some code commented out for brevity
$tainted_values = $user_profile->toArray(BasePeer::TYPE_FIELDNAME);
$this->form->bind(array_merge($tainted_values, $form_params), $file_params);
if ($this->form->isValid())
{
$this->form->save();
return $this->redirect('#user_account');
}
}
The User form class overrides the doSave() and Update() methods as follows:
protected function doSave($con = null)
{
$profile = $this->getObject();
// code commented out (saving files etc)
return parent::doSave($con);
}
public function updateObject($values = null)
{
$object = parent::updateObject($values);
$paththname = $object->getPictPath();
if (!empty($pathname))
{
$image_name = basename($pathname);
$object->setPictPath($image_name);
}
return $object;
}
When the user edits and saves the profile - the code runs as normal, but the object does not get updated in the database. I stepped through the code and in the save() method of the form, the object execution path indicates that no changes have been made to the object (even though the user entered values were correctly bound and the validate() method returned true.
Here is a stacktrace of warnings printed in the Apache error log file:
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Stack trace:, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 1. {main}() /home/voidstar/work/webdev/frameworks/symfony/sites/mywebsite/web/frontend_dev.php:0, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 2. sfContext->dispatch() /home/voidstar/work/webdev/frameworks/symfony/sites/mywebsite/web/frontend_dev.php:13, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 3. sfFrontWebController->dispatch() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/util/sfContext.class.php:170, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 4. sfController->forward() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/controller/sfFrontWebController.class.php:48, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 5. sfFilterChain->execute() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/controller/sfController.class.php:238, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 6. sfRenderingFilter->execute() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/filter/sfFilterChain.class.php:53, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 7. sfFilterChain->execute() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/filter/sfRenderingFilter.class.php:33, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 8. sfGuardRememberMeFilter->execute() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/filter/sfFilterChain.class.php:53, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 9. sfFilterChain->execute() /home/voidstar/work/webdev/frameworks/symfony/sites/mywebsite/plugins/sfGuardPlugin/lib/sfGuardRememberMeFilter.class.php:53, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 10. sfBasicSecurityFilter->execute() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/filter/sfFilterChain.class.php:53, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 11. sfFilterChain->execute() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/filter/sfBasicSecurityFilter.class.php:72, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 12. sfGoogleAnalyticsFilter->execute() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/filter/sfFilterChain.class.php:53, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 13. sfFilterChain->execute() /home/voidstar/work/webdev/frameworks/symfony/sites/mywebsite/plugins/sfGoogleAnalyticsPlugin/lib/filter/sfGoogleAnalyticsFilter.class.php:45, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 14. sfExecutionFilter->execute() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/filter/sfFilterChain.class.php:53, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 15. sfExecutionFilter->handleAction() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/filter/sfExecutionFilter.class.php:42, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 16. sfExecutionFilter->executeAction() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/filter/sfExecutionFilter.class.php:78, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 17. sfActions->execute() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/filter/sfExecutionFilter.class.php:92, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 18. userActions->executeEditProfile() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/action/sfActions.class.php:60, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 19. sfFormObject->save() /home/voidstar/work/webdev/frameworks/symfony/sites/mywebsite/apps/frontend/modules/user/actions/actions.class.php:68, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 20. UserProfileForm->doSave() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/form/addon/sfFormObject.class.php:130, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 21. sfFormObject->doSave() /home/voidstar/work/webdev/frameworks/symfony/sites/mywebsite/lib/form/core/UserProfileForm.class.php:119, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 22. UserProfileForm->updateObject() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/form/addon/sfFormObject.class.php:159, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 23. sfFormObject->updateObject() /home/voidstar/work/webdev/frameworks/symfony/sites/mywebsite/lib/form/core/UserProfileForm.class.php:136, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP 24. sfFormPropel->processValues() /lib/vendor/symfony/symfony-1.4.8/lib/form/addon/sfFormObject.class.php:181, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /home/voidstar/work/webdev/frameworks/symfony/sites/mywebsite/lib/model/core/om/BaseUserProfile.php on line 2903, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile
[Thu Jun 09 12:46:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Stack trace:, referer: http://mywebsite.localhost/frontend_dev.php/members/user/profile

Answer 1

Answer is the same as for this question: Symfony form values missing
i.e. overriden postValidate() method not returning $values was the culprit!