Symfony2 - Get external content when rendering template

Question

Beginner in Symfony2, so maybe it's a dumb question.

I would need to get the response of an HTTP query (external server) and put it on a template before sending it to the client.

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<div id="main_content">
  Lorem Ipsum
  <div id="external_content">
    {% get_content_by_url 'http://external.com/uri' params_object %}
  </div>
</div>

Or maybe I should get the response from the controller and pass it as a variable to the template ?

What is the best practice (or am I on a totaly wrong way :) ?

Hi, there are different ways to do: 1. Get the content in the controller and render it in twig 2. Let twig call an extra controller which handles the data 3. include the data with jQuery (ajax) — bodokaiser
– bodokaiser, Commented May 23, 2012 at 7:35

Jeromy French · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-11 21:58:50Z

8

you can use this bundle

after enters this code in your controller:

$crawler = $client->request('GET', 'http://symfony-reloaded.org/');
$response = $client->getResponse();
$content = $response->getContent();

and finaly in file twig :

<div id="main_content">
    Lorem Ipsum
<div id="external_content">
    {{ content  }}
</div>
</div>

edited Feb 11, 2013 at 21:58

Jeromy French

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answered May 23, 2012 at 7:44

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2 Comments

Pierre de LESPINAY Over a year ago

This seems simple. Can we do a POST request with parameters with the same method ?

a.aitboudad Over a year ago

yes : '$crawler = $client->request('POST', 'symfony-project.org/',params request); '

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