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If you are using admin generator in symfony 1.4, i bet you will have the problem to customize admin generator listing to show data from foreign table. It’s common for us to display data from different tables within a listing.

To customize admin generator listing to show foreign tables data, follow the steps below:-

• Let’s say we have 2 tables user_logins and user_profiles tables that store user login and their profile details.
• I’ve a user_login module that generated thru the admin generator
• Now i want to customize my admin generator listing to display some user_profiles data. Let say we only want to display 3 columns in our listing eg: user_id, user_name, user_profile_gender
• To do this, first we need to edit the generator.yml

  list:    
      display: [user_id, user_name, _user_profiles]

  * if you notice, i put a underscore at the user_profiles field.

• Now create a file name it _user_profiles.php in the module templates directory with the content below:-

  <?php echo $user_login->getUserProfile()->getGender(); ?>

  * Make sure you declare the correct relationship between the user_login and user_profiles table. else you will get error when you call getUserProfile().

• Now, refresh your user_login module listing and you should see the gender is displayed within the listing.

* there might be a better solution out there, if you found one remember to share with the others!

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