We’ve been working on a project in which a bunch of the tables had composite primary keys.  Often we wanted to embed these tables in other forms.  ahDoctrineEasyEmbeddedRelationsPlugin is a great plugin for managing embedded forms with Doctrine and Symfony.  It lets you easily let users add multiple new relations and delete previous ones.   However, it didn’t really support composite keys.   We also wanted to be able to expose the primary keys rather than unsetting them from the form(so that the relation is automatically declared).  This was a problem as we needed to be able to select at least one of the primary keys.  Here is an example where we wanted to let the user pick one of the primary keys:

User:
  columns:
     first_name:
        type: string(16)
Product:
   columns:
      name:
         type: string(32)
UserProduct:
   columns:
      user_id:
         type: integer
      product_id:
         type: integer
        price:
          type: decimal
    relations:
       User:
          local: user_id
          foreign: id
       Product:
         local: product_id
         foreign: id

In this case there are Products and Users. A Users can have a products and specify how much each costs. When you are adding products to a user, you would want to be able to select which product you are adding in the embedded form. This is where our problem was, with the plugin as of version 1.4.4 you couldn’t tell it not to unset the primary keys when it embedded the form. We did a checkout of the plugin from SVN and modified it a bit. It now has and additional parameter: newFormUnsetPrimaryKeys . This will make it so the plugin will not unset the primary keys on a new form if you set it to true (it defaults to false).

We also found that the plugin had hard coded a couple of places findOneById which required the primary key to be called `id`. We’ve updated this to use the Doctrine method getIdentifierColumnNames() to get the primary keys.

We only applied to be developers on this script, so are currently waiting on it to be packaged and released, however if you want our updated just do a svn checkout of the plugin and you will be all set!

Let us know if you have any questions on it!