How to call Controller from another folder via url Symfony 2? - php

Question

I have this folder structure (symfony 2 application):
src
|-- Application
| |-- UserBundle
| | |-- Admin
| | |-- Api
| | |-- SomeController.php
| | |-- Controller
| | |-- DefaultController.php
| | |-- DependencyInjection
| | |-- Entity
| | |-- Resources
| | |-- Tests
I want to call some controller from Api folder. How i can do this?
UPD.
I use symfony routing to provide the controller:
application_homepage:
path: /hello/{name}
defaults: { _controller: ApplicationUserBundle:Default:index }
application_some:
path: /api/{slug}
defaults: { _controller: ApplicationUserBundle:../Api/Some:index }
I want to load controller from Api folder

Answer 1

If the namespace of your controller is : Application\UserBundle\Api,
that the className is SomeController and the action is indexAction
You can use this syntax in your routing file :
application_some:
path: /api/{slug}
defaults: { _controller: Application\UserBundle\Api\SomeController::indexAction }

Answer 2

This solution will work too:
application_some:
resource: "#ApplicationUserBundle/Api"
type: annotation
or:
application_some:
resource: "#ApplicationUserBundle/Api/SomeController.php"
type: annotation
see http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/routing.html#including-external-routing-resources

Answer 3

If both controller sit within the same namespace, you could simply do
$controller = new ControllerInApiFolder();
$conotroller->someFunction();
if they do not, then you need to include the controller via use-statement.
use Namespace\My\Controller\Sits\In\ControllerInApiFolder;
If you are trying to access the controller not from another controller, but from a template, an url or a testcase, you should refer to the symfony2 documentation.
Symfony2 Doc
From the edited question above I take it you want to call the controller via the url.
In your browser you can simply type in
path/to/my/web/api/something
or
path/to/my/web/app_dev.php/api/something
where "path/to/my/web" referes to the path of the web folder within your project
EDIT: I think now I am getting the problem...
Symfony2 routing always defaults to the /Controller folder to look for the controller (which is quite nice).
I am not quite sure you should add another folder to this. Instead, the documentation suggests having multiple folders inside the /Controller folder.
If you take a look at the folder structure displayed here: Symfony2 Controller, you will notice that there is an API folder within the /Controller folder.
<your-project>/
├─ ...
└─ src/
└─ AppBundle/
├─ ...
└─ Controller/
├─ DefaultController.php
├─ ...
├─ Api/
│ ├─ ...
│ └─ ...
└─ Backend/
├─ ...
└─ ...