How to display months in full text for Date fields in Symfony2?

Question

When using the Date field in forms with Symfony2, they appear in three different select boxes. Sort of:

dd/mm/YYYY 

We would like to show months in the text January , February .... instead of 1,2,3 ...

How to force display in full text for a drop-down list of months?

EDIT: Here is the code that I use in my form class:

 $builder->add('dateOfBirth', 'birthday', array( 'format' => 'dd - MM - yyyy', 'widget' => 'choice', 'years' => range(date('Y'), date('Y')-70) )); 

EDIT2: Image showing F

Answer 1

Look at the DateType class code, it has a format option:

 $allowedFormatOptionValues = array( \IntlDateFormatter::FULL, \IntlDateFormatter::LONG, \IntlDateFormatter::MEDIUM, \IntlDateFormatter::SHORT, ); // If $format is not in the allowed options, it considered as the pattern of the formatter if it is a string if (!in_array($format, $allowedFormatOptionValues, true)) { if (is_string($format)) { $defaultOptions = $this->getDefaultOptions($options); $format = $defaultOptions['format']; $pattern = $options['format']; } else { throw new CreationException('The "format" option must be one of the IntlDateFormatter constants (FULL, LONG, MEDIUM, SHORT) or a string representing a custom pattern'); } } $formatter = new \IntlDateFormatter( \Locale::getDefault(), $format, \IntlDateFormatter::NONE, \DateTimeZone::UTC, \IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN, $pattern ); 

UPDATE

 $builder->add('dateOfBirth', 'birthday', array( 'format' => 'dd - MMMM - yyyy', 'widget' => 'choice', 'years' => range(date('Y'), date('Y')-70) ));