Sonata Media Bundle : acces media url

Question

I am using sonata media bundle.

and I was wondering how can I access the media url in twig.
I just want the url, I do not need to show the media.

Any sug

Answer 1

But if you do not want to render the media right there and just store the url in a variable, you need to ask the media provider for the public url. This was my case, that I needed to pass the url to another template. I did it creating a custom function in my Twig Extension (see here: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/templating/twig_extension.html).

Provided that you have the container available in your extension service with $this->container, you can do like this:

public function getMediaPublicUrl($media, $format)
{
    $provider = $this->container->get($media->getProviderName());

    return $provider->generatePublicUrl($media, $format);
}

Register the function in the extension:

public function getFunctions() {
     ....
    'media_public_url' => new \Twig_Function_Method($this, 'getMediaPublicUrl'),
     ....
    );
}

And call your new helper form your template:

{% set img_url = media_public_url(media, 'small') %}

for instance

regards