Question

I have such form definition class:

class HistorySliderType extends AbstractType
{

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function buildForm(FormBuilder $builder, array $options)
    {
        $builder
            ->add('date', 'datetime', array(
            'date_widget' => 'single_text',
            'time_widget' => 'single_text',
            'date_format' => 'yyyy-MM-dd',
            'with_seconds' => true
        ));
    }

    public function getDefaultOptions(array $options)
    {
        return array(
            'data' => array('date' => new \DateTime())
        );
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    function getName()
    {
        return 'acme_tbundle_historyslidertype';
    }
}

and I expected the date field to be now as default, while the fields stay blank on form rendering.

Am I missing something or getDefaultOptions isn’t supposed to be used to specify the initial (default) form values?

UPD:

After some research I came to the thoughts that it is a bug, so filled it: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/3288

Answer 1

Use the data option when adding the field:

$builder->add('token', 'hidden', array(
    'data' => 'abcdef',
));