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Chapter 10: Forms 159Chapter 10FormsDealing with the display of form inputs, the validation of a form submission, and all theparticular cases of forms is one of the most complex tasks in web development. Luckily,symfony provides a simple interface to a very powerful form sub-framework, and helps you todesign and handle forms of any level of complexity in just a few lines of code.Displaying a FormA simple contact form featuring a name, an email, a subject and a message fields typicallyrenders as follows:In symfony, a form is an object defined in the action and passed to the template. In order todisplay a form, you must first define the fields it contains - symfony uses the term “widget”.The simplest way to do it is to create a new sfForm object in the action method.// in modules/foo/actions/actions.class.phppublic function executeContact($request){$this->form = new sfForm();$this->form->setWidgets(array('name' => new sfWidgetFormInputText(),Listing10-1----------------- Brought to you by