Symfony4 Forms - EntityType with two choice_label

Question

I'm pretty new to symfony and symfony forms.

I have a form with an EntityType, that looks like this:

->add('customer', EntityType::class, [
    'label' => 'Kunde: ',
    'class' => Customer::class,
    'choice_label' => 'Name',
    'query_builder' => function(EntityRepository $er) {
        return $er->createQueryBuilder('c')
            ->select('CONCAT(c.firstname, " ", c.surname) AS Name');
    }
])

But I now get an Error/Warning:

Warning: spl_object_hash() expects parameter 1 to be object, string given

Customer Entity:

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="App\Repository\CustomerRepository")
 */
class Customer
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     */
     private $id;

    /**
     * @var string
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="firstname", type="string", length=50, nullable=false)
     */
    private $firstname;

    /**
     * @var string
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="surname", type="string", length=50, nullable=false)
     */
    private $surname;

    ...

Thank you very much for your time and help.

Answer 1

You could also simply use a callback for the choice_label

E.g.:

->add('customer', EntityType::class, [
    'label' => 'Kunde: ',
    'class' => Customer::class,
    'choice_label' => function (Customer $customer) {
        return $customer->getFirstname() . ' ' . $customer->getSurname();

        // or better, move this logic to Customer, and return:
        // return $customer->getFullname();
    },
])

Answer 2

Not sure if this works with Symfony 4 but it does work with symfony 5. This is more of an extension of Yoshis' answer than a new answer.

If you create a getFullname() function as suggested by Yoshi you can do the following.

Customer.php:

public function getFullname(): ?string {
    return $this->firstname . ' ' . $this->surname;
}

Then in your form:

->add('customer', EntityType::class, [
    'label' => 'Kunde: ',
    'class' => Customer::class,
    'choice_label' => 'fullname'
])

Adding the fullname function to the customer also allows you to use fullname within your twig files.

eg.

{{ customer.fullname }}

Answer 3

Have you created a __toString() method in your customer entity.

/**
 * toString
 *
 * @return string
 */
public function __toString() {
    return $this->getFirstname().' '.$this->getSurname();
}

Then, something like this should be enough :

->add('customer')

If customer is related to your entityType, this should be enough