Change input name of form fields in Symfony2
Form field names in Symfony2
Symfony2 gives your input fields a name like this:
<input type="text" value="" name="update_personal[address]" id="update_personal_address">In this case update_personal is the name of your form (type) you created.
What I wanted was this:
<input type="text" value="" name="address" id="update_personal_address">Without doing too much magic or creating the form myself.
Solution
Return null in your getName implementation.
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class AddressType extends AbstractType
{
public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
{
..
}
public function getName()
{
return null;
}
..
Extra
When you build your form in the controller (which I don’t recommend), you need to set the name of the root form to null.
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$form = $this->get('form.factory')
->createNamedBuilder(null, 'form', $address)
->add('address', 'text');
Thanks for reading
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