Load list of active users from database with symfony without using a controller

Question

I'm making a presonification menu on my navbar so that i can access from any page i don't want to use the getRepository inside a controller and pass to the frontend.

Is there a way on symfony 4 that I can get all the users from my database and call it to front? like the app.session.user (to get info on the logged user) for example?

Thanks!

Answer 1

As Cerad mentioned, you can embed a Controller in your templates : https://symfony.com/doc/current/templates.html#embedding-controllers

Instead of doing {% include 'base/navbar.html.twig' %} you will do

In your template :

{{ render(controller('App\\Controller\\BaseController::renderNavbar')) }}

In BaseController

public function renderNavbar(UserRepository $userRepository) {
    return $this->render('base/navbar.html.twig', [
        'activeUsers' => $userRepository->findActiveUsers(),
    ]);
}

It's not a route, it's simply a function that renders html, so you don't need to add annotations.