I'm playing with Silex microframework to build a very simple app. The Silex documentation briefly illustrates how to keep your code organised using controller as class and I've also found this useful article talking about the same practice: https://igor.io/2012/11/09/scaling-silex.html but still can't solve my problem
The issue:
in my app.php I'm using
$app->get('/{artist}', 'MyNamespace\\MyController::getAlbum');
This is working. MyController is a class correctly loaded through composer using psr-4.
At the moment the return method of getAlbum($artist) is return $player;
What I'd like to do instead, is returning a twig view from getAlbum, something like:
return $app['twig']->render('player.twig', $player);
To do so, what I've tried to do in my custom class/controller is:
use Silex\Application;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
[...]
public function getAlbum(Request $request, Application $app, $artist)
but this is generating the following error when I try to access the routed pages:
ReflectionException in ControllerResolver.php line 43:
Class MyNamespace\Request does not exist
Whic made me think that there's a namespace conflict between myNamespace and the Silex namespaces?!
What am I doing wrong? Is this the right way to make $app visible in my custom controller in order to use return $app['twig']... ?
Thank you in advance!
EDIT
After several other tries still didn't get to the point (replies still welcome!) but I've found a workaround solution that could be useful to anyone will incur in a similar issue. Directly in my app.php I added this
$app->get('/{artist}', function (Silex\Application $app, $artist) use ($app)
{
$object = new MyNamespace\MyController();
$player = $object->getAlbum($artist);
return $app['twig']->render('player.twig',
array(
//passing my custom method return to twig
'player' => $player,));
});
then in my player.twig I added:
{{player | raw}}
And this basically means that I still need an anonymous function to get use of my custom method which is a working solution I'm not really happy with because:
- I'm using 2 functions for 1 purpose.
- The return value of getAlbum is dependent from the use of "raw" in twig.
SOLVED
The workflow described works fine. It was a distraction error: I've placed the namespace of my custom class after use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request; namespace declaration in PHP needs always to be at the top of the file, Silex wasn't able to injects $app and $request for this reason.