Symfony2: Routing controllers and views in subdirectories

Question

I'm developing a bundle with frontend and backend. I follow instructions about the best way to structure controllers and views for backend and frontend parts here and here. But I can't find how to specify subdirectories in my routing configuration file. I try to put this, but it does not work.

post:
  pattern:  /
  defaults: { _controller: "HavactBlogBundle:Backend/Post:Backend/index" }

Doesn't simple `:` work? `HavactBlogBundle:Backend:Post:index` — Vladislav Rastrusny, Mar 18 '12 at 19:59

score 16 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '12 at 19:52

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try this: replace the slash with the backslash

post:
    pattern:  /
    defaults: { _controller: "HavactBlogBundle:Backend\Post:index" }

answered Mar 18 '12 at 19:52

Lhassan Baazzi

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The Backslash scape next character "P" and result this error: Unable to find controller "HavactBlogBundle:Backend ost". I resolved with bouble backslash and works for controller, but not for template. index is in backend subdirectory, what i need is something like this HavactBlogBundle:Backend\\Post:Backend/Post/index – smoreno Mar 19 '12 at 04:08
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when u want to render the template in action index use this: `return $this->render('HavactBlogBundle:Backend:Post:index.html.twig');` – Lhassan Baazzi Mar 19 '12 at 09:02
Yes, this works to render templates inside an action, but not in the routing config file. defaults: { _controller: "HavactBlogBundle:Backend:Post:index.html.twig" } – smoreno Mar 19 '12 at 13:12
I believe it is "doable" by making it like this: { _controller: "HavactBlogBundle:Backend/Post:index.html.twig" } the convention with semicolons says something like "bundle:dir:file", where Your dir is "Backend/Post". – thorinkor Dec 05 '13 at 13:53

John Pancoast · Answer 2 · 2015-01-29T21:30:38.903

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For those people not wanting to expose their controllers as a service (which is an indirect solution to the problem), you specify the route as such.

route_name: path: /path defaults: { _controller: BundleName:Namespace/Controller:action }

Namespace is your subdirectory in the bundle's Controller directory followed by / to separate it.

All else should work just the same.

edited Jan 29 '15 at 21:30

answered Jan 29 '15 at 21:25

John Pancoast

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Works for me in Symfony 2.7. Slash for separation is fine - it's just important to remember correcting the namespace of those controllers moved to a subdirectory. – Atan Jun 21 '16 at 11:29

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 20 '12 at 02:51

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I relsoved exposing my controller as service

post:
pattern:  /
defaults: { _controller: "my.controller.service.id:indexAction" }

answered Mar 20 '12 at 02:51

smoreno

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 31 '12 at 07:50

In routing YAML:

defaults: { _controller: Org\FancyBundle\Controller\Page\Blog\CommentsController::fancyAction }

The difference here is that I don't use quotes around the string and YAML is okay with that. In a Twig template:

{% render "Org\\FancyBundle\\Controller\\Page\\Blog\\CommentsController::listAction" with {} %}

I've never had any problems with escaping that I know of. Symfony 2.0.9, PHP 5.3.9 on Windows/IIS (sigh)

Symfony2: Routing controllers and views in subdirectories

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