Adding and editing select box in symfony

Question

I am new to symfony. Trying to create an add and edit form with it. When I tried to add a select box in which the choice data is populated from database, but the select box shows only id as the value and name of option list

 $form = $this->createFormBuilder($defaultData)
            ->add('category_id', ChoiceType::class, array(
                    'label' => 'Category',
                    'choices'  => array(
                    $category)))

This is my controller portion

   <label for="exampleInputEmail1"> Category</label>
                    {{ form_widget(form.category_id, {'attr' : { 'class':'form-control'}}) }}
              </div>

my output is

   <option value="id">id</option>

Please help me to display name too

 <option value="id">Name</option>

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 07 '18 at 08:25

Just because data is populated from db. Then instead of ChoiceType::class change to EntityType::class

 $form = $this->createFormBuilder($defaultData)
        ->add('category_id', EntityType::class, array(
                'label' => 'Category',
                'choices'  => array(
                $category)))

check official doc EntityType Field

Adding and editing select box in symfony

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