php - Getting Instance Of SilexApplication

Solution:

There's really only two ways to do it.

a) PassSilex\Application as an argument to the constructor of your class and assign it as an instance variable.

b) Pass theSilex\Application to your private method as an argument by hand.

Are you sure you need the full app in your class? The point of dependency injection is to inject dependencies directly, instead of injecting the container (yes,Silex\Application extends\Pimple, which is a Dependency Injection Container.

Solution:

From your comment on the other answer, your goal of getting at the Silex/Application is to get at the Twig service there. The way that I've solved getting at the current application in another function for my Silex projects is:

use \Silex\Application;
use \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

class myController {
  private $a;

  // Route defined as:
  // $app->get('/foo', 'myController::showPage');
  public function showPage(Application $a) {
    $this->a = $a;
    return $this->doAwesome();
  }

  private function doAwesome() {
    $twig = $this->a['twig'];
    return $twig->render('awesomePage.twig');
  }
}
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Every function that is an endpoint for a route would then save the Application passed to it as a class property, for other functions to get at. It means you have to remember to do$this->a = $a; in every function that usesdoAwesome() (before callingdoAwesome()), but that's the cleanest way I've come up with to tackle that.