Twig Extension for Yii 2 ¶

This extension provides a ViewRender that would allow you to use Twig view template engine with Yii framework 2.0.

For license information check the LICENSE-file.

Installation ¶

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-twig

or add

"yiisoft/yii2-twig": "~2.0.0"

to the require section of your composer.json.

Usage ¶

To use this extension, simply add the following code in your application configuration:

return [
    //....
    'components' => [
        'view' => [
            'renderers' => [
                'twig' => [
                    'class' => 'yii\twig\ViewRenderer',
                    // set cachePath to false in order to disable template caching
                    'cachePath' => '@runtime/Twig/cache',
                    // Array of twig options:
                    'options' => [
                        'auto_reload' => true,
                    ],
                    // ... see ViewRenderer for more options
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ],
];

Class Reference

Class	Description
yii\twig\Extension	Extension provides Yii-specific syntax for Twig templates.
yii\twig\Optimizer	Optimizer removes echo before special functions call and injects function name as an argument for the view helper calls.
yii\twig\Template	Template base class
yii\twig\ViewRenderer	TwigViewRenderer allows you to use Twig templates in views.
yii\twig\ViewRendererStaticClassProxy	Class-proxy for static classes Needed because you can't pass static class to Twig other way