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Mastering Symfony
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Mastering Symfony

by Sohail Salehi
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
290 pages
5h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to call a service

We have called a service in our project before. To know the answer, open mava/src/AppBundle/Controller/DashboardController.php and note two things:

<?php
namespace AppBundle\Controller;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
class DashboardController extends Controller
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        $uId = $this->getUser()->getId();
        $util = $this->get('mava_util');
        //...
    }
}

First, this class extends Symfony's Controller class. Secondly, spot the get(mava_util) method at line 9. This method is in charge of calling services and is defined in the Controller.php class as follows:

 /** * Gets a container service by its id. * @param string $id The service id * @return object The service */ public function get($id) ...
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ISBN: 9781784390310