Question

When using the image_tag() method like this:

<?php echo image_tag('whatever.png') ?>

Symfony outputs an image like this:

<img src="/images/whatever.png"/>

By default it uses images as the base images folder in your web directory. Can you change this default folder name in the Symfony config? Say I wanted to use img instead of images…

Answer 1

The config variable is named sf_web_images_dir_name. You can see that in the source here. It can be set via sfConfig::set or through app.yml.

All told, it seems like the easiest way to do this is adding:

<?php sfConfig::set('sf_web_images_dir_name', 'img'); ?>

to the end of app.yml, simply because that is where config stuff is expected, but there are a variety of different ways to accomplish this.