Hello,

I am almost complete symfony2 newbie, I tried to find simple solution
for my problem with no luck.

Imagine a database entity - Person for example. This Person should have
it's photogallery, simple blog, settings, etc.. Each of these sections
should be located in their separate controller classes
(PhotogalleryController, BlogController, etc..).

URLs are constructed like this:
http://www.example.com/[person_string_id]
http://www.example.com/[person_string_id]/photogallery
http://www.example.com/[person_string_id]/photogallery/new
http://www.example.com/[person_string_id]/blog
http://www.example.com/[person_string_id]/blog/new
http://www.example.com/[person_string_id]/settings
etc..

What (or where) is the best practice to read the Person entity from
database? I don't want to do it in every action in every controller but
all the actions with routes /[person_string_id]/**** need the Person
entity.

I have read something about event listeners, I believe this could be
solution for me, but I could use some advice here.

Thanks

Adam

Use ParamConverter

Luis

as itoapant suggests. There is a @*ParamConverter* directive for the route,
but you should name that param "id" like the property of the entity
http://symfony.com/doc/current/bundles/SensioFrameworkExtraBundle/ann...

Another more basic way is to invoke your persistence layer (doctrine I
assume) and retrieve the entity

Something like (for doctrine orm)

$this->get('doctrine.orm.entity_manager')->getRepository('YourBundle:Person ')->findOneById($param);

If you don't want (and you shouldn't) rewrite this for every action just
create a method in the controller class, or even better, define a base
controller class and define all the methods there.

Il giorno mercoledì 20 giugno 2012 20:56:02 UTC+2, Adam Chysky ha scritto: