Question

I have a problem with rendering PHP templates instead Twig templates in Symfony2. The problem is Symfony for some reason does not interpret PHP code in template. Instead of interpreting PHP blocks of code, Symfony renders them simply as plain text. I try to follow to the documentation and render form to template like so.
When I write in controller

return $this->render('MyStudyBundle:Default:new.html.twig', array(
    'form' => $form->createView(),
));

form loads as I expect. But when I change “new.html.twig” to “new.html.php” and try to render form in php template – as a result I have HTML page, where php code simply showed like plain text.
The question is why Symfony does not interpret blocks of php code in php templates?

Answer 1

You need to enable PHP templating engine.

In your app/config/config.yml:

framework:
     templating:    { engines: ['twig', 'php'] }

This might be helpful to you: How to use PHP instead of Twig for Templates.