Question

With Silex (the PHP micro framework), it’s possible to give names to existing controllers, so that we can easily generate urls to them later. Example:

$app->get('/gallery', function () {...})
    ->bind('gallery');

// Later on, in a template
{{ path('gallery') }}

I think this is really useful and I can’t live without it.

But is it possible to register a route to an external website ? Say I’d like to generate urls to a google search, kind of

{{ path('google', {'search':'symfony'}) }}
// Would render to http://google.com/search?q=symfony

I take any idea 🙂 Thx for your help !

Answer 1

path() is a Twig Extension for routing. Routing is to route an incoming URL to a controller action.

You can, however, create your own twig extension if you want a helper to easily create those standard outgoing URLs.

Take a look at: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/templating/twig_extension.html

You could then create an extension that turns {{ google('search string') }} into a URL. Only the imagination is your boundary.