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Symfony2 – Franz Jordán 2011
// ...
new Acme\HelloBundle\AcmeHelloBundle(),
);
// ...
return $bundles;
}
Now that you have a bundle setup, you can begin building your application inside the bundle.
Step 1: Create the Route
By default, the routing configuration file in a Symfony2 application is located
atapp/config/routing.yml. Like all configuration in Symfony2, you can also choose to use
XML or PHP out of the box to configure routes.
If you look at the main routing file, you'll see that Symfony already added an entry when you
generated the AcmeHelloBundle:
YAML
# app/config/routing.yml
AcmeHelloBundle:
resource: "@AcmeHelloBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml"
prefix: /
This entry is pretty basic: it tells Symfony to load routing configuration from
theResources/config/routing.yml file that lives inside the AcmeHelloBundle. This
means that you place routing configuration directly in app/config/routing.yml or organize
your routes throughout your application, and import them from here.
Now that the routing.yml file from the bundle is being imported, add the new route that
defines the URL of the page that you're about to create:
# src/Acme/HelloBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml
hello:
pattern: /hello/{name}
defaults: { _controller: AcmeHelloBundle:Hello:index }
The routing consists of two basic pieces: the pattern, which is the URL that this route will
match, and a defaults array, which specifies the controller that should be executed. The
placeholder syntax in the pattern ({name}) is a wildcard. It means
that /hello/Ryan, /hello/Fabien or any other similar URL will match this route.
The {name} placeholder parameter will also be passed to the controller so that you can use its
value to personally greet the user.
The routing system has many more great features for creating flexible and powerful URL
structures in your application. For more details, see the chapter all aboutRouting.
Step 2: Create the Controller
When a URL such as /hello/Ryan is handled by the application, the hello route is matched
and theAcmeHelloBundle:Hello:index controller is executed by the framework. The
second step of the page-creation process is to create that controller.
The controller - AcmeHelloBundle:Hello:index is the logical name of the controller, and
it maps to the indexAction method of a PHP class
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