In Slim v3 how to access $container properties in routes? - php

Question

My Setup is like this:
I request my settings from this file and store them in the settings variable.
$settings = require __DIR__ . '/settings.php';
Next create a new Slim instance like so:
$app = new \Slim\App($settings);
$container = $app->getContainer();
$container['logger'] = function($c) {
$settings = $c->get('settings')['logger'];
$logger = new \Monolog\Logger($settings['name']);
$file_handler = new \Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler($settings['path']);
$logger->pushHandler($file_handler);
return $logger;
};
Then i am calling my route:
$this->get('/testlogger, __testReq::class . ':test);
The above route calls the "test" method inside of my class. Which gets loaded over autoload. Below my class (controller) in which i am trying to access the container like explained on Slim Website.
class __testReq {
function test($request, $response){
//According to Documentation i am supposed to be able to call logger like so:
$this->logger->addInfo("YEY! I am logging...");
}
}
Why is it not working?

Answer 1

From Slim documentation (Documentation uses HomeController class as example):
Slim first looks for an entry of HomeController in the container, if it’s found it will use that instance otherwise it will call it’s constructor with the container as the first argument.
So in your class __testReq constructor, you need to set up the object:
class __testReq {
// logger instance
protected $logger;
// Use container to set up our newly created instance of __testReq
function __construct($container) {
$this->logger= $container->get('logger');
}
function test($request, $response){
// Now we can use $this->logger that we set up in constructor
$this->logger->addInfo("YEY! I am logging...");
}
}