Avoiding Setter Injection
A while ago I had a twitter discussion with Igor Wiedler and Matthias Noback about setter injected dependencies being mutable. When using objects as services in an application then we do not want them to…
Symfony2: Yet more on that Twig Extension
In my last post I looked at the end at creating a Twig extension that would return the template to extend in order to pull the logic for the decision out of the template. The…
Symfony2: Trimming Fat from Controllers
In this post I am going to look at some techniques for cleaning up Symfony2 controller actions. Some of this by using some of the extras that are part of the standard distribution and some…
Symfony2: Manipulating Service Parameters and Definitions
In my previous post I looked at Symfony2 Service Container Compiler Passes, in this post I will look at how to manipulate service container parameters and definitions from within a compiler pass. So the important…
Symfony2: Service Container Compiler Passes
In this post I am going to look at compiler passes. This is not something that you will often need to worry about when making an app with Symfony2. They do come in useful for…
Symfony2: Obtaining the Request Object
In this quick post I am looking at how to obtain the Request object in a Symfony2 controller as a service. This is actually covered in the docs but in one of the earlier introductory…