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EasyAdmin triggers several Symfony events during the execution of its requests, so you can listen to those events and run your own logic.

Events were useful in EasyAdmin versions previous to 3.0, because backends were defined with YAML config files instead of PHP code. Starting from EasyAdmin 3.0 everything is defined with PHP. That's why it's easier to customize backend behavior overloading PHP classes and methods and calling to your own services. However, the events still remain in case you want to use them.

All events are triggered using objects instead of event names defined as strings (as recommended since Symfony 4.3). They are defined under the EasyCorp\Bundle\EasyAdminBundle\Event\ namespace:

  • Events related to Doctrine entities:

    • AfterEntityBuiltEvent
    • AfterEntityDeletedEvent
    • AfterEntityPersistedEvent
    • AfterEntityUpdatedEvent
    • BeforeEntityDeletedEvent
    • BeforeEntityPersistedEvent
    • BeforeEntityUpdatedEvent
  • Events related to resource admins:

    • AfterCrudActionEvent
    • BeforeCrudActionEvent

Event Subscriber Example

The following example shows how to use an event subscriber to set the slug property of the BlogPost entity before persisting it:

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# src/EventSubscriber/EasyAdminSubscriber.php
namespace App\EventSubscriber;

use App\Entity\BlogPost;
use EasyCorp\Bundle\EasyAdminBundle\Event\BeforeEntityPersistedEvent;
use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;

class EasyAdminSubscriber implements EventSubscriberInterface
{
    private $slugger;

    public function __construct($slugger)
    {
        $this->slugger = $slugger;
    }

    public static function getSubscribedEvents()
    {
        return [
            BeforeEntityPersistedEvent::class => ['setBlogPostSlug'],
        ];
    }

    public function setBlogPostSlug(BeforeEntityPersistedEvent $event)
    {
        $entity = $event->getEntityInstance();

        if (!($entity instanceof BlogPost)) {
            return;
        }

        $slug = $this->slugger->slugify($entity->getTitle());
        $entity->setSlug($slug);
    }
}

JavaScript Events

EasyAdmin triggers several JavaScript events during user interactions with entity forms:

Event type Occurs when Event detail Cancelable
'ea.form.error' User submits a form that has validation errors {page: pageName, form: form} true
'ea.form.submit' User submits a form {page: pageName, form: form} true
'ea.collection.item-added' Item added to collection {newElement: element} false
'ea.collection.item-removed' Item removed from collection   false

Tip

Read more about the detail property and the cancelable property of JavaScript events.

Here's how you can listen for these events in JavaScript:

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document.addEventListener('ea.form.error', (event) => {
    const {page, form} = event.detail
    alert(`The ${page} form contains errors. Please resolve these before submitting again.`)
});

document.addEventListener('ea.form.submit', (event) => {
    const {page, form} = event.detail
    console.debug(`${page} form submitted`, form)
});

For more details and examples of the ea.collection.* events, see the Collection Field JavaScript Events section.

This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
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