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  • Create the Extension Class
  • Register an Extension as a Service
  • Using the custom Extension
  • Learning further

How to Write a custom Twig Extension

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How to Write a custom Twig Extension

The main motivation for writing an extension is to move often used code into a reusable class like adding support for internationalization. An extension can define tags, filters, tests, operators, global variables, functions, and node visitors.

Creating an extension also makes for a better separation of code that is executed at compilation time and code needed at runtime. As such, it makes your code faster.

Tip

Before writing your own extensions, have a look at the Twig official extension repository.

Create the Extension Class

Note

This article describes how to write a custom Twig extension as of Twig 1.12. If you are using an older version, please read Twig extensions documentation legacy.

To get your custom functionality you must first create a Twig Extension class. As an example you'll create a price filter to format a given number into price:

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// src/AppBundle/Twig/AppExtension.php
namespace AppBundle\Twig;

class AppExtension extends \Twig_Extension
{
    public function getFilters()
    {
        return array(
            new \Twig_SimpleFilter('price', array($this, 'priceFilter')),
        );
    }

    public function priceFilter($number, $decimals = 0, $decPoint = '.', $thousandsSep = ',')
    {
        $price = number_format($number, $decimals, $decPoint, $thousandsSep);
        $price = '$'.$price;

        return $price;
    }
}

Note

Prior to Twig 1.26, your extension had to define an additional getName() method that returned a string with the extension's internal name (e.g. app.my_extension). When your extension needs to be compatible with Twig versions before 1.26, include this method which is omitted in the example above.

Tip

Along with custom filters, you can also add custom functions and register global variables.

Register an Extension as a Service

Now you must let the Service Container know about your newly created Twig Extension:

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# app/config/services.yml
services:
    app.twig_extension:
        class: AppBundle\Twig\AppExtension
        public: false
        tags:
            - { name: twig.extension }
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<!-- app/config/services.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services
        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd">

    <services>
        <service id="app.twig_extension"
            class="AppBundle\Twig\AppExtension"
            public="false">
            <tag name="twig.extension" />
        </service>
    </services>
</container>
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// app/config/services.php
use AppBundle\Twig\AppExtension;

$container
    ->register('app.twig_extension', AppExtension::class)
    ->setPublic(false)
    ->addTag('twig.extension');

Using the custom Extension

Using your newly created Twig Extension is no different than any other:

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{# outputs $5,500.00 #}
{{ '5500'|price }}

Passing other arguments to your filter:

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{# outputs $5500,2516 #}
{{ '5500.25155'|price(4, ',', '') }}

Learning further

For a more in-depth look into Twig Extensions, please take a look at the Twig extensions documentation.

This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
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