How to override Symfony form MoneyType input as type=“number”?

Question

The Symfony MoneyType Field renders as input type=\"text\" which allows a user to type whatever they want into the field.

How can I override this to ren

Answer 1

Why not use 'scale' to specify the number of decimal places, and also use 'placeholder' to tell the user the format:

->add('amount', MoneyType::class, array(
        'label' => 'Enter Amount:',
        'scale' => 2,
        'attr' => array(
                'placeholder' => 'x.xx',
        ),
))

I'm not sure if this is helpful or not.

Edit #2. After getting feedback, i think this should work for you:

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Regex;
...

->add('amount', MoneyType::class, array(
        'label' => 'Enter Amount:',
        'scale' => 2,
        'attr' => array(
                'placeholder' => 'x.xx',
        ),
        'constraints' => array(
                new Regex( array( 'pattern' => '/[0-9]{1,}\.[0-9]{2}/')),
        ),
))

See this link for info on adding Validation: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/forms.html#adding-validation

The above regular expression specifies at least 1 proceeding digit before the decimal, and 2 digits following the decimal place. In your original post you referred to 'currency', but that is a 'string'. You can modify the regular expression based on your needs.

I haven't verified this (I use something similar), but I think it should work.