README.md

di-builder

This library tries to help the usage of the Symfony dependecy injection Component by offering an easy interface to build and load your dependency injection container.

Features

• Multiple container files or paths: you can create the container from one or more files and paths, this is useful when dealing with modules;
• Multiple file loader: you can select if you want to create your container from XML (default), YAML, PHP or mixed mode (delegates the loading by the extension of file);
• Usage of your own container base class: sometimes you may use a different class to inherit your container (rather than Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Container;
• Automatic dump creation: instead of building your container for all requests you will do that only when things change (development mode only);
• Configuration handlers: you are able to inject handlers to be executed before the container compilation process (to change the services definitions);
• Dynamic parameters: if you need to configure parameters that may change according with the environment automatically (like base project directory using __DIR__).

Installation

This package is available on Packagist, you can install it using Composer.

composer require lcobucci/di-builder

PHP Configuration

In order to make sure that we're dealing with the correct data, we're using assert(), which is a very interesting feature in PHP but not often used. The nice thing about assert() is that we can (and should) disable it in production mode so that we don't have useless statements.

So, for production mode, we recommend you to set zend.assertions to -1 in your php.ini. For development you should leave zend.assertions as 1 and set assert.exception to 1, which will make PHP throw an AssertionError when things go wrong.

Check the documentation for more information: https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.assert.php

Basic usage

The usage is really simple, just trust the Lcobucci\DependencyInjection\Builder interface and all should be good =)

Take a look:

<?php
/* Composer autoloader was required before this */ 

use Your\Own\Compiler\DoSomethingPass;
use Lcobucci\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
use Lcobucci\DependencyInjection\Generators\Php as PhpGenerator;

$container = (new ContainerBuilder())->setGenerator(new PhpGenerator()) // Changes the generator
                                     ->addFile(__DIR__ . '/config/services.php') // Appends a file to create the container
                                     ->addPath(__DIR__ . '/src/Users/config') // Appends a new path to locate files
                                     ->addFile('services.php') // Appends a file to create the container (to be used with the configured paths)
                                     ->useDevelopmentMode() // Enables the development mode (production is the default)
                                     ->setDumpDir(__DIR__ . '/tmp') // Changes the dump directory
                                     ->setParameter('app.basedir', __DIR__) // Configures a dynamic parameter
                                     ->addPass(new DoSomethingPass()) // Appends a new compiler pass
                                     ->addDelayedPass(DoSomethingPass::class) // Appends a new compiler pass that will only be initialised while building the container
                                     ->addPackage(MyPackage::class) // Appends a new package that might provide files and compiler passes to be added to the the container
                                     ->getContainer(); // Retrieves the container =)

Pretty easy, right?

Compiler Pass

The handlers are very great to change your container before dumping a container. And you can create your own handler by just implementing the Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Compiler\CompilerPassInterface interface (so you can also use compiler pass from symfony bundles). Like this:

use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Compiler\CompilerPassInterface;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Definition;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Reference;

final class EventListenerInjector implements CompilerPassInterface
{
    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function process(ContainerBuilder $container)
    {
        $dispatcher = $container->getDefinition('event.dispatcher');   
    
        foreach ($container->findTaggedServiceIds('event.listener') as $service => $tags) {
            foreach ($tags as $tag) {
                $dispatcher->addMethodCall(
                    'addListener',
                    [$tag['event'], new Reference($service), $tag['priority']]
                );
            }
        }
    }
}

Happy coding ;)