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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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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

How to call a service


We have called a service in our project before. To know the answer, open mava/src/AppBundle/Controller/DashboardController.php and note two things:

<?php
namespace AppBundle\Controller;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
class DashboardController extends Controller
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        $uId = $this->getUser()->getId();
        $util = $this->get('mava_util');
        //...
    }
}

First, this class extends Symfony's Controller class. Secondly, spot the get(mava_util) method at line 9. This method is in charge of calling services and is defined in the Controller.php class as follows:

    /**
     * Gets a container service by its id.
     * @param string $id The service id
     * @return object The service
     */
    public function get($id)
    {
        //...
        return $this->container->get($id);
    }

In this example, it calls the mava_util service and benefits from its methods. Moving the query...

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