How to Forward Requests to another Controller
How to Forward Requests to another Controller¶
Though not very common, you can also forward to another controller internally
with the forward() method provided by the
AbstractController
class.
Instead of redirecting the user’s browser, this makes an “internal” sub-request
and calls the defined controller. The forward() method returns the
Response object that is returned
from that controller:
public function index($name)
{
$response = $this->forward('App\Controller\OtherController::fancy', [
'name' => $name,
'color' => 'green',
]);
// ... further modify the response or return it directly
return $response;
}
The array passed to the method becomes the arguments for the resulting controller. The target controller method might look something like this:
public function fancy($name, $color)
{
// ... create and return a Response object
}
Just like when creating a controller for a route, the order of the arguments
of the fancy() method doesn’t matter: the matching is done by name.
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