how to render dynamic menus based on logged user role on symfony2

Question

Which is the best practice to generate in a template a dynamic menu (the menu will be present in all the other app's pages) depending on the user role? i'm using this in my main template:

{{render(controller('AcmeMainBundle:Sidebar:show'))}}  

and this is the controller

class SidebarController extends Controller {
    public function showAction() {

        $userRole = $this->getUser()->getRoles();        
        if (in_array("ROLE_ADMIN", $userRole)) {
            return $this->render('AcmeMainBundle:Sidebar:sidebarAdmin.html.twig');
        } else {
            return $this->render('AcmeMainBundle:Sidebar:sidebarUser.html.twig');
        }
    }
}

but i think it isn't good; what do you think? thanks!

Answer 1

You can achieve this at the view level too. In the template, check the active user's role and hide/show menus depending on the role

{% if is_granted('ROLE_ADMIN') and not is_granted('ROLE_USER') %}

//Show admin stuff

{% else if is_granted('ROLE_USER') %}

//Show user stuff

{% endif %}