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 should make changes to temporary object where entity is stored before displaying it on form. Something like next:

getDisplayed() === null) {
            $options['data']->setDisplayed(true);
        }

        // ...

        $builder
            ->add('displayed', 'checkbox', array(
                'required' => false
            ));
    }
}