disable layout for sfDoctrineGuardPlugin in Symfony

Question

How could I prevent mentioned plugin's login form from using default layout? I am aware of this question, but that answer doesnt work for me. For starters, there's no signin module in modules dir, probably plugins handle it in different way, I dont know. Just learning symfony. Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

If you just want to set a different layout, you need to add a module (just create it manually) called "sfGuardAuth". Inside the /config/ directory for that, change the layout in the view.yml like for any other module. This is explained in:

http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfDoctrineGuardPlugin/4_0_0

... under section "Customize sfGuardAuth module actions".

However, if you want to "embed" your login form on another existing page, you could turn the login into a component - which means it uses the existing layout of the page it occurs in.

Component action in a custom module:

public function executeSigninLightbox(sfWebRequest $request)
{
    $class = sfConfig::get('app_sf_guard_plugin_signin_form', 'sfGuardFormSignin'); 
    $this->form = new $class();
}

... which like all components uses a partial as its view. The partial now has access to $form like a standard login page. The partial for this would be called "_signinLightbox".

Hope that helps.