How to render Twig template from database in symfony2

Question

I\'m working on application written in symfony2 and I want to send email after some action/event... the problem is, that the users can define something like \"email template

Answer 1

Clone the native twig service and replace the filesystem loader with the native twig string loader:

<service id="my.twigstring" class="%twig.class%">
    <argument type="service" id="my.twigstring.loader" />
    <argument>%twig.options%</argument>
</service>        
<service id="my.twigstring.loader" class="Twig_Loader_String"></service>

Usage example from within a controller:

$this->get('my.twigstring')->render('Hello {{ name }}', array('name' => 'Fabien'));

Answer 2

  $message = \Swift_Message::newInstance()
        ->setSubject('Hello Email')
        ->setFrom('send@example.com')
        ->setTo('recipient@example.com')
        ->setBody('hai its a sample mail')
    ;
    $this->get('mailer')->send($message);

Answer 3

Twig_Loader_String is deprecated and was always designed for internal use anyway. The usage of this loader is strongly discouraged.

From the API doc:

This loader should NEVER be used. It only exists for Twig internal purposes. When using this loader with a cache mechanism, you should know that a new cache key is generated each time a template content "changes" (the cache key being the source code of the template). If you don't want to see your cache grows out of control, you need to take care of clearing the old cache file by yourself.

Also check out this issue: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/10865

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The best way I know to load a template from a String source are:

From a controller:

$template = $this->get('twig')->createTemplate('Hello {{ name }}');
$template->render(array('name'=>'World'));

as described here: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/recipes.html#loading-a-template-from-a-string

From a twig template:

{{ include(template_from_string("Hello {{ name }}", {'name' : 'Peter'})) }}

as described here: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/functions/template_from_string.html

Note, that the 'template_from_string' - function is not available by default and needs to be loaded. In symfony you would do this by adding a new service:

# services.yml
services:
    appbundle.twig.extension.string:
        class: Twig_Extension_StringLoader
        tags:
            - { name: 'twig.extension' }

Answer 4

FYI, This feature was suggested to be added in the core of Twig as of 1.11.0, but will be needed to be activated by the developper.

Answer 5

With Symfony 2.2 you can use the Twig_Chain_Loader
How to register another (custom) Twig loader in Symfony2 environment?