How to use birthday field in symfony2 forms

Question

Symfony Docs say that we can use birthday date in forms. but they have not given any example how to use that

Can anyone please tell me where do I need to write birthday in doctrine entity?

Answer 1

$builder->add('dateOfBirth', 'birthday');

You have plenties of example on the internet:

• How to display months in full text for Date fields in Symfony2?
• http://j-place.developpez.com/tutoriels/php/creer-premiere-application-web-avec-symfony2/#LX-A

Answer 2

The Birthday is the form_widget.

ex. in controller:

$form = $this->createFormBuilder($task)
        ->add('task', 'text')
        ->add('yearOfBirth', 'birthday')
        ->getForm();

This widget can be mapped to DateTime field

/**
 * @var date $yearOfBirth
 *
 * @ORM\Column(name="year_of_birth", type="datetime")
 * @Assert\DateTime()
 */
private $yearOfBirth;

Here you got reference to docs about this field: http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/forms/types/birthday.html

Regards, Max