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PHP Building Websites with PHP Slim Basics & Twig Templates Views & Twig Inside of Slim

Chris Ioannou
Chris Ioannou
460 Points
Posted by Chris Ioannou
Chris Ioannou
460 Points

Error in video 'Views & Twig Inside of Slim' relating to TwigExtension.php on line 37

I get this error when I finish the video about blocks and adding a content block under the exceeds block for the main.twig within the about.twig file.

Fatal error: Class 'Twig_Extension' not found in /home/treehouse/workspace/vendor/slim/views/TwigExtension.php on line 37

I have the same versions of slim/slim, slim/views, twig/twig in my composer.json file as the instructor. I have correctly named all the blocks. I have updated the index.php file to render the about.twig file.

Here are some key snippets of code. This from my composer.json file:

   "require": {
    "monolog/monolog": "^1.22",
    "slim/slim": "2.6",
    "twig/twig": "1.18",
    "slim/views": "^0.1.3"
      }

and then this in the about.twig file

  {% extends 'main.twig' %}
  {% block content %}
  <strong>About</strong>
  <h2>Ralph Waldo Emerson</h2> <p>Ralph Waldo Emerson <em>(May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882)</em> was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.</p>...

and then this in the index.php file:

  $app->get('/', function() use($app){
  $app->render('about.twig');
  });

And this from the TwigExtension.php file with in he slim/views vendor folder:

  class TwigExtension extends \Twig_Extension
  {
      public function getName()
      {
          return 'slim';
      }

Anyone able to help me??

Chris Ioannou
Chris Ioannou
460 Points
Chris Ioannou
Chris Ioannou
460 Points

And from my index.php file:

  $view->parserExtensions = array(
      new \Slim\Views\TwigExtension()
  );

  $app->get('/', function() use($app){
    $app->render('about.twig');
  });

1 Answer

Glenré Charl Labuschagné
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
23,204 Points
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
23,204 Points

Hi Chris, you need to add twig/extensions to your composer.json file and run the command: "composer update" command…

"require": {
    "monolog/monolog": "^1.23",
    "slim/slim": "~2.6",
    "slim/views": "^0.1.3",
    "twig/twig": "1.18",
    "twig/extensions": "*"
}