How to set default value for form field in Symfony2?

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Ondrej Slinták picture Ondrej Slinták · Oct 27, 2011 · Viewed 194.1k times · Source

Is there an easy way to set a default value for text form field?

Answer

rkmax picture rkmax · Jan 24, 2014

you can set the default value with empty_data 

$builder->add('myField', 'number', ['empty_data' => 'Default value'])

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