Symfony2 - Get Form value, not key

Question

I'm new to Symfony2 (version 2.7) and I'm trying to get the value from a submitted form. Using $form->getData(), I get the index corresponding to the selected value in the list.

For example, assuming $test is an array:

$form = $this->createFormBuilder($test)
->add('abc', 'choice',
    array('choices' => array(
        '0' => 'option1',
        '1' => 'option2',
        '2' => 'option3'
    )))
->getForm();
$form->handleRequest($request);
if ($form->isValid()) {
    $data = ($form->getData());
}

Then, $data will be 1 if I select option2. I've also tried to set choices_as_values to true, but then I got the array indexes in the drop-down list.

What can I do to get $data equal to option2 ?

Steve_B19 · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-16 14:06:19Z

1

$values = array('option1', 'option2', 'option3');

$form = $this->createFormBuilder($test)
->add('abc', 'choice', array('choices' => $values))
->getForm();

$form->handleRequest($request);

if ($form->isValid()) {
    $data = $form['abc']->getData();

    //returns option1 if option1 is selected etc..
    $choice = $values[$data];

    //returns choice value
    $choice = $data;
}

answered Jan 16, 2016 at 14:06

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Rinku Over a year ago

Thanks ! Worked like a charm.

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