symfony2 twig whitelist html tags

Question

I pass a variable to my twig template in Symfony2, this variable may contain
html tags, I have tried to create an extension (function), but the variabl

Answer 1

Initially I thought it should be possible to write custom escaper strategies so you could do something like this:

{{ var|escape('html-custom') }}

Unfortunately it's not the case. Only available strategies are html and js. They're hard coded in the twig_escape_filter() function defined in a Twig_Extension_Core class file.

It seems that your only option is to write custom estension with a new filter:

{{ var|raw|customescape }}

Here's an example of custom twig extension and how to register it in Symfony: Symfony2 Twig extension