Symfony where to initialize routes? (routing.yml or inside controller) - php

Question

On the routing page of smyfony is an routing example (the first one). Now they give us 4 options of code (Annotations, YAML, XML, PHP). Where is the difference? And maybe you can take a look on my Controller + Route.
The controller looks like this:
<?php
namespace AppBundle\Controller;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
class ToDoListController extends Controller
{
/**
* #Route("/ToDoList", name="ToDoList")
*/
public function showToDoList()
{
}
}
?>
Now I added this route into the routing.yml too.
ToDoList:
path: /Aufgabenliste
defaults: {_controller: AppBundle\Controller \ToDoListController::showToDoList}
Is that correct? Whats about the path? In the first example of the symfony page they wrote defaults: { _controller: AppBundle:Blog:show } but in the description they wrote:
The _controller string is called the logical name. It follows a pattern that points to a specific PHP class and method, in this case the AppBundle\Controller\BlogController::listAction and AppBundle\Controller\BlogController::showAction methods.

Answer 1

Allright. So in Symfony you get to choose between different methods of routing. You can do this for example via annotations or yml(I used to use yml but now I switched to annotations). The only difference is in... format of the file ;) For example I realy like to use annotations because instead of having one billion entries in one file I have every route right next to the code it leads to. At this point for you it depends on what you like better. However I think it's considered as good practice to use annotations.
<?php
namespace AppBundle\Controller;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
class ToDoListController extends Controller
{
/**
* #Route("/ToDoList", name="ToDoList")
*/
public function showToDoList()
{
}
}
?>
Code above is ok - you used required namespaces and created correct annotation. All of this you have to do in your bundle you are working on. Also you have to go to app/config/routing.yml and put there something like this:
YourBundleName:
resource: "#YouBundle/Controller/"
type: annotation
Of course it's just an example - you need to adjust it to your needs. This way you are saying to Symfony that you want to use annotations.