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Anas EL KORCHI
Anas EL KORCHI

Reputation: 2048

How to use a Symfony2.2 service from ouside of the controller?

I have a service in my Symfony app I know from the controller we can use it with the function $this->get('MyService'); but from a script outside of my controller how should I call it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 86

Answers (1)

Nicolai Fröhlich
Nicolai Fröhlich

Reputation: 52483

You have to register your outside-controller class as a service in your bundle's service configuration ( i'll assume yml configuration here )

services:
    your_service_name:
        class:     Your/NonController/Class
        arguments: ['@service_you_want_to_inject']

now in your class where you want to use the injected service:

// Your/NonController/Class.php
protected $myService;

// your 'service_you_want_to_inject' will be injected here automatically
public function __construct($my_service)
{
    $this->myService = $my_service;
}

Remember for the Dependency Injection to happen you have to actually use this class as a service now - otherwise the injection will not happen automatically.

You can get your newly created service in a controller now as usual:

// 'service_you_want_to_inject' will be automatically injected in the constructor
$this->get('your_service_name');

There is also setter injection and property injection but that's out of this question's scope... Read more about DI in the Service Container chapter of the symfony documentation.

Upvotes: 1

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