Changing the location of twig templates in symfony

19/02/2018 - SYMFONY, TWIG

Default location to Twig templates is app/Resources/views but if you wish to change it to classic path src/AppBundle/Resources/views then add following line to configuration file.


# app/config/config.yml

twig:
    ...
    paths: ["%kernel.project_dir%/src/AppBundle/Resources/views"]

If you inject @templating service into your controller to serve Twig templates then add following line to configuration file.


# app/config/config.yml

framework:
    templating:
        engines: ['twig']

After these changes, you can have a controller like show below.


namespace AppBundle\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Templating\EngineInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class DefaultController
{
    private $templating;

    public function __construct(EngineInterface $templating)
    {
        $this->templating = $templating;
    }

    public function indexAction()
    {
        $template = $this->templating->render('AppBundle:default:index.html.twig', [...]);

        return (new Response())->setContent($template);
    }
}

# src/AppBundle/Resources/views/default/index.html.twig

{% extends '::base.html.twig' %}

{% block body %}
    Default
{% endblock %}