Accessing logged in user in Symfony2 action and template

Question

I am using Doctrine as Auth provider in my symfony2 app. How can I access authenticated user in action or template?

Answer 1

In your templates, you can do:

{{ app.user }}

And in your controller, if you extend the base controller provided by the framework bundle, you can do:

$this->getUser();

Anyway, you can access it from the service container:

$securityContext = $container->get('security.context');
$token = $securityContext->getToken();
$user = $token->getUser();

Answer 2

This question is pretty old, but in case anyone is wondering, you can get the user in a template that uses the PHP Engine with

    $app->getUser();