Including a non-twig file from twig

Question

I need to include the contents of a file (inside my resources folder) inside a Twig template.

I have tried this with no luck:

{% include \'public/directo         


        

Answer 1

Twig will complain when loading your file if it is not a valid twig template. The reason is that Twig will include the rendered file and not the content of it (found here).

You could try with a use statement but I don't think this will work either.

Moreover, the syntax you use seems incorrect. When I include (or use) another twig template, I use this syntax:

{% use "AcmeWebsiteBundle::include.html.twig" %}

And the file include.html.twig resideds in src\Acme\WebsiteBundle\Resources\views\include.html.twig. So, if your file is in src\Acme\WebsiteBundle\Resources\public\directory\include.ext, you could try

{% use "AcmeWebsiteBundle::..\public\directory\include.ext" %}

If that doesn't work, you could possibly move the file into the views folder. If this is not possible, you can possibliy put in app\Resources\views\ and use the syntax:

{% use "::include.ext" %}

If the use statement doesn't work, which I'm afraid of, you could possibly wrap your file into a twig template directly. I'm templating some simple JSON structures with twig. So, there may be a way for you to include the content of file.ext into a twig template and then render it.

If all this fail, you will have to create a Twig extension that add a new tag (something like content) that would read a file and output its content in your twig template.

{% content 'public/directory/file.ext' %} {# would put content of the file #}

Hope this will help you to include your file.

Regards,
Matt