Symfony CSRF and Ajax

Question

I am trying to implement some ajax functionality in my Symfony 2 project. Using jquery\'s $.post I want to send some data back to my controller. However, when I just POST th

Answer 1

In Symfony2 CSRF token is based on session by default. If you want to generate it, you just have to get this service and call generation method:

//Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Csrf\CsrfProvider\SessionCsrfProvider by default
$csrf = $this->get('form.csrf_provider');
//Intention should be empty string, if you did not define it in parameters
$token = $csrf->generateCsrfToken($intention); 

return new Response($token);

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