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Mastering Symfony

You're reading from   Mastering Symfony Orchestrate the designing, development, testing, and deployment of web applications with Symfony

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784390310
Length 290 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Installing and Configuring Symfony FREE CHAPTER 2. The Request and Response Life Cycle 3. Setting Up the Environment 4. Using Behavior-Driven Development in Symfony 5. Business Logic 6. Dashboard and Security 7. The Presentation Layer 8. Project Review 9. Services and Service Containers 10. Custom User Commands 11. More about Dev, Test and Prod Environments 12. Caching in Symfony Index

Let's mold the clay


A good base template shouldn't have anything other than blocks. This means that if you have a class name or ID name defined in your base template, then you need to reconsider your structure. Yes, your code still works but it does not follow the best practices. Remember, a base template is supposed to define the structure only. So, all styling or functional-related contents should be kept in the children templates that extend the base.

Keeping this in mind, let's modify the default base template a little:

{# app/Resources/views/base.html.twig #}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
        <title>{% block title %}{% endblock %}</title>
        {% block head %}{% endblock %}
    </head>
    <body>
        {% block navigation %}{% endblock %}
        {% block body %}{% endblock %}
        {% block footer %}{% endblock %}
        {% block javascripts %}{% endblock %}
    </body>
</html&gt...
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