Question

How to include .css and .js files in a php file (index.html.php for example) on Symfony? (I’m using Symfony2 if that matters), I read that I must include the src/link within an asset function like follow:

<link href="<?php echo $view['assets']->getUrl('MyStyle.css') ?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<link href="<?php echo $view['assets']->getUrl('buttons.css') ?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Neither that nor the ordinary of php, worked with me.
Update: css files locate on \Bundle\Resources\public\css

Answer 1

You have two options:

without using assetic:

If your assets are in src/Your/Bundle/Resources/public/, you have to call ./app/console assets:install --symlink web/ to create a symlink from web/bundle/yourbundle to src/Your/Bundle/Resources/public/ so that they are accessible from web (alternatively you could do ./app/console assets:install web/ to copy the files directly, without symlink.

Then you could do this:

<link href="<?php echo $view['assets']->getUrl('/bundle/yourbundle/css/MyStyle.css') ?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

using assetic:

With assetic you don’t need to install/copy the files, assetic will do it for you:

<?php foreach ($view['assetic']->stylesheets(
    array('@YourBundle/css/MyStyle.css')) as $url): ?>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $view->escape($url) ?>"></script>
<?php endforeach; ?>

See http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/assetic/asset_management.html (click on the PHP tab on the code samples).