Hooking into the controllers

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Hooking into the controllers¶

The controllers packaged with the FOSUserBundle provide a lot of functionality that is sufficient for general use cases. But, you might find that you need to extend that functionality and add some logic that suits the specific needs of your application.

For this purpose, the controllers are dispatching events in many places in their logic. All events can be found in the constants of the FOS\UserBundle\FOSUserEvents class.

All controllers follow the same convention: they dispatch a SUCCESS event when the form is valid before saving the user, and a COMPLETED event when it is done. Thus, all SUCCESS events allow you to set a response if you don't want the default redirection. And all COMPLETED events give you access to the response before it is returned.

Controllers with a form also dispatch an INITIALIZE event after the entity is fetched, but before the form is created.

For instance, this listener will change the redirection after the password resetting to go to the homepage instead of the profile:

// src/Acme/UserBundle/EventListener/PasswordResettingListener.php

namespace Acme\UserBundle\EventListener;

use FOS\UserBundle\FOSUserEvents;
use FOS\UserBundle\Event\FormEvent;
use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Generator\UrlGeneratorInterface;

/**
 * Listener responsible to change the redirection at the end of the password resetting
 */
class PasswordResettingListener implements EventSubscriberInterface
{
    private $router;

    public function __construct(UrlGeneratorInterface $router)
    {
        $this->router = $router;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public static function getSubscribedEvents()
    {
        return array(
            FOSUserEvents::RESETTING_RESET_SUCCESS => 'onPasswordResettingSuccess',
        );
    }

    public function onPasswordResettingSuccess(FormEvent $event)
    {
        $url = $this->router->generate('homepage');

        $event->setResponse(new RedirectResponse($url));
    }
}

You can then register this listener:

YAML

# src/Acme/UserBundle/Resources/config/services.yml
services:
    acme_user.password_resetting:
        class: Acme\UserBundle\EventListener\PasswordResettingListener
        arguments: ['@router']
        tags:
            - { name: kernel.event_subscriber }

XML

<!-- src/Acme/UserBundle/Resources/config/services.xml -->
<service id="acme_user.password_resetting" class="Acme\UserBundle\EventListener\PasswordResettingListener">
    <tag name="kernel.event_subscriber"/>
    <argument type="service" id="router"/>
</service>

Registration success listener with enabled confirmation at the same time¶

When you have registration confirmation and you want to hook up to FOSUserEvents::REGISTRATION_SUCCESS event you will have to prioritize this listener to be called before FOS\UserBundle\EventListener\EmailConfirmationListener::onRegistrationSuccess:

public static function getSubscribedEvents()
{
    return [
        FOSUserEvents::REGISTRATION_SUCCESS => [
            ['onRegistrationSuccess', -10],
        ],
    ];
}

If you don't do it, EmailConfirmationListener will be called earlier and you will be redirected to fos_user_registration_check_email route.

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