How to set default value for form field in Symfony2?

Question

Is there an easy way to set a default value for text form field?

Answer 1

As Brian asked:

empty_data appears to only set the field to 1 when it is submitted with no value. What about when you want the form to default to displaying 1 in the input when no value is present?

you can set the default value with empty_value

$builder->add('myField', 'number', ['empty_value' => 'Default value'])