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Templates

4 posts tagged Templates.

  • Title card: Twig strict_variables: errors or silent null

    09/27/2026

    Twig strict_variables: errors or silent null

    strict_variables makes Twig throw on a missing variable, attribute or method instead of using null. Symfony turns it on in dev and off in prod.

  • Diagram: autoescape on, punctured by |raw, with three contexts named where that filter is the wrong answer -- attribute, URL, inline JS and CSS.

    09/02/2026

    Twig autoescaping and the raw filter

    Autoescaping makes Twig safe by default and makes |raw the fastest way to undo that. The catch is that HTML escaping is only correct in HTML - inside a script tag or an unquoted attribute, the default is the wrong answer.

  • Rendering Twig from Symfony Repositories Without DI

    07/04/2019

    Rendering a Twig template outside a controller

    You do not need a controller to render Twig, and you should not pass the container around to get at it. Inject the Environment, and use createTemplate when the template itself comes from the database.

  • Diagram: a child template's block calling parent() to keep the base template's stylesheet lines and add its own, against a faint version where they were lost.

    11/30/2015

    Extending a parent Twig block with parent()

    Define a block in a child template and it replaces the parent's version completely - which is rarely what you wanted for a block holding stylesheets or scripts. parent() puts the inherited content back.

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