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Working with Routes

One of the cornerstones of developing a Symfony application is working with routes. The routing infrastructure ensures that we can use readable URLs (for example, /products/hammer instead of index.php?page=products&productid=12345) and that these URLs are mapped to a controller in our application that can respond to requests.

The Symfony Plugin provides several facilities for working with routes.

Code completion for routes

PhpStorm provides code completion for functions that take a route name as an argument. In the editor, press Ctrl+Space to invoke code completion and do any of the following:

  • Specify arguments for such controller functions as generateUrl or forward.

    ps symfony route name controller completion

  • Specify arguments for such Twig functions as path or controller.

    ps symfony route name twig completion

Navigation for routes

Since routes are linked to a controller, you can use Navigate to declaration (Ctrl+B) on a route to navigate to the corresponding controller. Alternatively, Ctrl+Click (for Windows and Linux) or ⌘+Click (for macOS) the service's name.

ps symfony route navigate controller

To navigate back to a route mapped to a controller, click the route icon ps symfony route icon in the editor gutter.

ps navigate to symfony route

Missing route inspection

Whenever you use the name of a route that is not defined or misspelled, PhpStorm displays the corresponding warning from the Missing Route inspection..

ps symfony missing route inspection
Last modified: 21 November 2018
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