fosuserbundle-integration.md

How To Integrate FOSUserBundle To Manage Users

FOSUserBundle is a popular Symfony bundle which simplifies the management of users in Symfony applications. This article explains how to better integrate it with EasyAdmin to manage users' information. The article assumes that you have installed FOSUserBundle and have created a user entity as explained in its documentation.

Creating New Users

FOSUserBundle defines a user manager to handle all operations on user instances, such as creating and editing users. This manager, which is accessed through the fos_user.user_manager service, makes the bundle "agnostic" to where the users are stored and it's a good practice to use it.

Before using this manager, create your own AdminController if you haven't done it already so you can modify the behavior of the new action. Then, override the createNewUserEntity() and prePersistUserEntity() methods to override the way users are created and persisted:

// src/AppBundle/Controller/AdminController.php
namespace AppBundle\Controller;

use JavierEguiluz\Bundle\EasyAdminBundle\Controller\AdminController as BaseAdminController;

class AdminController extends BaseAdminController
{
    public function createNewUserEntity()
    {
        return $this->get('fos_user.user_manager')->createUser();
    }

    public function prePersistUserEntity($user)
    {
        $this->get('fos_user.user_manager')->updateUser($user, false);
    }
}

The false value of the second argument of updateUser() tells FOSUserBundle to not save the changes (to not flush the UnitOfWork) at that moment and to let Doctrine take care of saving those changes when needed.

NOTE

If your user entity is not called User, you need to change the above method names. For example, if the entity is called Customers, the methods to define are createNewCustomersEntity() and prePersistCustomersEntity().

Editing User Information

FOSUserBundle provides a custom User entity with some predefined properties, such as email, enabled and lastLogin. You can manage these properties in the same way you manage any property of any other entity:

easy_admin:
    entities:
        User:
            class: AppBundle\Entity\User
            form:
                fields: ['enabled', 'username', 'email', 'roles', 'lastLogin']

However, it's recommended to save changes using FOSUserBundle's user manager. Therefore, open your AdminController and add the following method:

class AdminController extends BaseAdminController
{
    // ...

    public function preUpdateUserEntity($user)
    {
        $this->get('fos_user.user_manager')->updateUser($user, false);
    }
}

NOTE

If your user entity is not called User, you need to change the above method name. For example, if the entity is called Customers, the method to define is preUpdateCustomersEntity().