Symfony2 call controller from another controller [duplicate] - symfony

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I'm new to symfony2 and I've been trying to find the best way to call a controller from within another.
I have a list of events and I need an action to get all events and another action to get an event by ID but I don't want to keep repeating the doctrine calls each time I need to do this.
I thought about making a controller with all event actions and then calling the needed action from within other controllers each time I need it, if there is a better way to do it, I'm open for any suggestions.
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you have a piece of logic that should be reused, it probably doesn't belong in the controllers. You should try moving it to a service, which is easy to do.
In src/BundleName/Resources/config/services.yml:
services:
service_name:
class: BundleName\Service\ServiceName
arguments: [#doctrine.orm.default_entity_manager]
Then, create BundleName\Service\ServiceName class (as shown in the docs) with the logic to be reused. An example below:
class ServiceName {
protected $entityManager;
public function __construct($entityManager) {
$this->entityManager = $entityManager;
}
public function addProduct($product) {
//Get the array, hydrate the entity and save it, at last.
//...
$entity = new Product();
//...
$this->entityManager->persist($entity);
$this->entityManager->flush($entity);
return $entity;
}
}
Then, in your actions, just call $this->get('service_name')->addProduct($array), or something like that.
Of course, if you want a controller action to be reused, you can use your controller as a service. I'd advice you to add a service layer, though.