Symfony2 global variables in TWIG

Except well documented TWIG functions like: path(),  asset(), … and custom variables you pass into view from controller when rendering some TWIG template, Symfony2 provides an easy way to access some ‘global’ variables inside TWIG templates without explicitly sending those to the view from controller.

Let me write some example:

Global variable app is start point to get some extra information inside TWIG templates.

With ‘app’ variable, we can access various objects data;

Public methods are available from following objects using app variable:

Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Kernel
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request
Symfony\Component\Security\Core\SecurityContext
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Session
Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\TokenInterface::getUser

For example:

{# ... #}

{{app.kernel.cachedir}}
{{app.kernel.logdir}}
{{app.kernel.rootdir}}
 
{{app.request.basepath}}
{{app.request.baseurl}}
{{app.request.uri}}
 
{{app.security.token.user}}
 
{{app.session.locale}}
 
{# ... #}

I will now let you search more in those classes for getter functions that could be called and used in twig that way. Cheers 🙂