How to render a checkbox that is checked by default with the symfony2 Form Builder?

Question

I have not found any easy way to accomplish to simply check a Checkbox by default. That can not be that hard, so what am i missing?

Answer 1

You can also just set the attr attribute in the form builder buildForm method:

$builder->add('isPublic', CheckboxType::class, array(     'attr' => array('checked'   => 'checked'), )); 

Answer 2

In Symfony >= 2.3 "property_path" became "mapped".

So:

$builder->add('checkboxName', 'checkbox', array('mapped' => false,     'label' => 'customLabel',     'data' => true, // Default checked ));