Passing Information from Twig to JavaScript ¶
In Symfony applications, you may find that you need to pass some dynamic data
(e.g. user information) from Twig to your JavaScript code. One great way to pass
dynamic configuration is by storing information in data
attributes and reading
them later in JavaScript. For example:
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<div class="js-user-rating"
data-is-authenticated="{{ app.user ? 'true' : 'false' }}"
data-user="{{ app.user|serialize(format = 'json') }}"
>
<!-- ... -->
</div>
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Fetch this in JavaScript:
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document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
var userRating = document.querySelector('.js-user-rating');
var isAuthenticated = userRating.dataset.isAuthenticated;
var user = JSON.parse(userRating.dataset.user);
// or with jQuery
//var isAuthenticated = $('.js-user-rating').data('isAuthenticated');
});
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Note
When accessing data attributes from JavaScript, the attribute names are
converted from dash-style to camelCase. For example, data-is-authenticated
becomes isAuthenticated
and data-number-of-reviews
becomes
numberOfReviews
.
There is no size limit for the value of the data-
attributes, so you can
store any content. In Twig, use the html_attr
escaping strategy to avoid messing
with HTML attributes. For example, if your User
object has some getProfileData()
method that returns an array, you could do the following:
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<div data-user-profile="{{ app.user ? app.user.profileData|json_encode|e('html_attr') }}">
<!-- ... -->
</div>
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