Using $form->schema with Select field's createOptionForm
Hi all
I've got a complex form that I've extracted to a separate class for re-use. I'm returning it in resource pages using
return MyForm::build($form) and it works well. I'd like to re-use the form for a related resource's select field's ->createOptionForm. Does anyone know of a way to do that?
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In my projects I tend to create a trait where I put all the shared form-element definitions as separate methods for each field or sometimes for a Section containing some fields.
Then in my resources I declare my forms with just a bunch of calls to those methods from the trait.
This allows me to selectively ignore certain fields by skipping calling those methods, or replace them with a different method call in certain forms or under certain conditions.
So ... it's more of a "reused elements" strategy than a "re use the exact form" in multiple places kind of approach.
Cool approach, thanks for sharing. I ended up just returning the schema array instead of the form object from my build method. Splitting things into smaller pieces could definitely be useful though.