Symfony UX Dropzone

Symfony UX Dropzone is a Symfony bundle providing light dropzones for file inputs in Symfony Forms. It is part of the Symfony UX initiative.

It allows visitors to drag and drop files into a container instead of having to browse their computer for a file.

Installation

Caution

Before you start, make sure you have StimulusBundle configured in your app.

Install the bundle using Composer and Symfony Flex:

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        $ composer require symfony/ux-dropzone
    

If you're using WebpackEncore, install your assets and restart Encore (not needed if you're using AssetMapper):

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        $ npm install --force
$ npm run watch
    

Usage

The most common usage of Symfony UX Dropzone is to use it as a drop-in replacement of the native FileType class:

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        // ...
use Symfony\UX\Dropzone\Form\DropzoneType;

class CommentFormType extends AbstractType
{
    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        $builder
            // ...
            ->add('photo', DropzoneType::class)
            // ...
        ;
    }

    // ...
}
    

Customizing the design

Symfony UX Dropzone provides a default stylesheet in order to ease usage. You can disable it to add your own design if you wish.

In assets/controllers.json, disable the default stylesheet by switching the @symfony/ux-dropzone/dist/style.min.css autoimport to false:

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        {
    "controllers": {
        "@symfony/ux-dropzone": {
            "dropzone": {
                "enabled": true,
                "fetch": "eager",
                "autoimport": {
                    "@symfony/ux-dropzone/dist/style.min.css": false
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "entrypoints": []
}
    

Note

Note: you should put the value to false and not remove the line so that Symfony Flex won’t try to add the line again in the future.

Once done, the default stylesheet won’t be used anymore and you can implement your own CSS on top of the Dropzone.

Extend the default behavior

Symfony UX Dropzone allows you to extend its default behavior using a custom Stimulus controller:

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        // mydropzone_controller.js

import { Controller } from '@hotwired/stimulus';

export default class extends Controller {
    connect() {
        this.element.addEventListener('dropzone:connect', this._onConnect);
        this.element.addEventListener('dropzone:change', this._onChange);
        this.element.addEventListener('dropzone:clear', this._onClear);
    }

    disconnect() {
        // You should always remove listeners when the controller is disconnected to avoid side-effects
        this.element.removeEventListener('dropzone:connect', this._onConnect);
        this.element.removeEventListener('dropzone:change', this._onChange);
        this.element.removeEventListener('dropzone:clear', this._onClear);
    }

    _onConnect(event) {
        // The dropzone was just created
    }

    _onChange(event) {
        // The dropzone just changed
    }

    _onClear(event) {
        // The dropzone has just been cleared
    }
}
    

Then in your form, add your controller as an HTML attribute:

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        // ...
use Symfony\UX\Dropzone\Form\DropzoneType;

class CommentFormType extends AbstractType
{
    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        $builder
            // ...
            ->add('photo', DropzoneType::class, [
                'attr' => ['data-controller' => 'mydropzone'],
            ])
            // ...
        ;
    }

    // ...
}
    

Backward Compatibility promise

This bundle aims at following the same Backward Compatibility promise as the Symfony framework: https://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/code/bc.html

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

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