Combining Assetic Resources across inherited templates

Question

We are building a new site using Symfony2, and Assetic looks very promising for resource management, in particular for combining and processing all js/css files together automatically.

We wil have some resources that are used site wide, and some that are specific to particular pages. We will also be using a three tiered inherited approach to templates.

Is there a way to combine the two concepts, i.e. to automatically add additional resources in inherited templates so that they are all output as a single resource?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, you can't :(

You can't override the assetic tags to add more assets. You can however do the following:

{% block stylesheets %}
    {% stylesheets 'your_assets_here' %}
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ asset_url }}" />
    {% endstylesheets %}
{% endblock %}

Then, when you extend the template:

{% block stylesheets %}
    {% stylesheets 'your_old_assets_here' 'your_new_assets_here' %}
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ asset_url }}" />
    {% endstylesheets %}
{% endblock %}

In the overridden block, you can use parent() to include the parent block, but you would have 2 links then: you can't combine the old assetic tag with the new one.

You could however make a twig macro that would output the {% stylesheets %} assetic tag with your old assets, and as input it would contain new asset locations.

More info here.