Symfony 2 sharing data between controllers

[doddsey_65]

Hi, I have started to create a project using Symfony 2. I need to share data between all controllers.

 

I have added a base controller which extends symfony\controller and each of my controllers extends this base controller

 

class BaseController extends Controller


class HomeController extends BaseController

 

This base controller will be used for things like assigning global twig variables ( I know I can do this in the config but some of the variables will be gotten from other config files and database ).

 

So I thought I could reference container since Controller is container aware, however it isn't at the point I am using the functions (from constructor).

 

public function __construct ()

 

I have seen people mention passing the container in as a parameter and mention services but I have had a look and cannot figure it out. All I want to achieve is this:

 

public function __construct (Container $container) {
    $container->get('twig').addGlobal('foo');
}

 

[trq]

Have another look at the documentation on services. If your stuck, post some actual code.

[trq]

Oh and besides. Controllers should be pretty dumb. What you describe as a solution is likely the side effect of some other poor design decision.

[doddsey_65]

Going to mark this as solved (it isn't). I was planning on moving all of my codebase over to Symfony but it seems like it would take a lot of effort and disrupt my current workflow.

[ignace]

Perhaps reading documentation instead of complaining:

http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/templating/global_variables.html

[doddsey_65]

In which post did I complain? I mearly stated that it would take alot more work than I thought to migrate from Silex.

 

The code in those docs uses the config files to store global variables and, as I said, I cannot do it that way and it has to be from a controller.