Question

I’m trying to build a form using symfony2, but I keep getting the error message ‘The option “widget” does not exist ‘ whenever I add the widget option to specify a form field type.

I’m following the example given on the documentation there http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/forms.html

here is my code that does not work.

class UserType extends AbstractType
{
public function buildForm(FormBuilder $builder, array $options)
{
    $builder
        ->add('Name')
        ->add('Login')
        ->add('Password')//, 'text', array('widget' => 'password'))
        ->add('ConfirmPassword')//, 'text', array('widget' => 'password', 'label' =>'Confirm Password'))
        ->add('Email', 'text', array('widget' => 'email'))
        ->add('ConfirmEmail')//,'text', array('widget' => 'email', 'label' =>'Confirm Email'))    
   //...
}

Anyone knows why ?
Thanks

Answer 1

I believe, the correct way to do what you want to achieve is the following:

->add('Name', 'text')
->add('Login', 'text')
->add('Password', 'password')
->add('ConfirmPassword', 'password', array('label' =>'Confirm Password'))
->add('Email', 'email')
->add('ConfirmEmail', 'email')

The first argument of add method is field’s name (it has to be unique within form). The second is type and it is responsible for the form taken by widget while rendering. The list of built-in types here. The third argument is array of options. Each type has it’s own set of possible options. Indeed, some of types have the widget option. For example date type has such option. But password and email types don’t have such option.