Fields and projections

This is the official documentation of the forestadmin/laravel-forestadmin v2+ and forestadmin/symfony-forestadmin PHP agents.

Fields

Field identifiers simply are strings that identify a column in the context of a collection.

Let’s consider the following database structure; collections, fields and relationships:

In this context, you’ll find below some examples that show valid and invalid field calls:

Collection	Field	Valid?
Books	"title"	🟢 Yes
Books	"myAuthor:firstname"	🟢 Yes
Books	"myReviews:content"	❌ No, only relationships which yield one record can be traversed
Reviews	"content"	🟢 Yes
Reviews	"myBook:title"	❌ No, reverse relationships are not automatically defined

Projections

Projections are mainly used to fetch partial records and automatically fetch linked records.

Projections simply are an array of fields.

["id", "title", "author:firstName"] // for books