This is a problem that many people seem to have: they see the filters used in the admin backend generated by Symfony and think “wow how great is that!!??!!”. However there is little to no documentation on how to use those filters if you want to implement them customized and tuned for your own needs in a frontend environment. In this post I’ll explain how I have used the Symfony filter forms, and hope that you will find valuable information on how you could start using them yourself.