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Introduce a template

In order to display data of your Field Type from templates, you need to create and register a template for it. You can find documentation about FieldType templates, as well as on importing settings from a bundle.

In short, such a template must:

• extend EzPublishCoreBundle::content_fields.html.twig
• define a dedicated Twig block for the type, named by convention <TypeIdentifier_field>, in this case, eztweet_field
• be registered in parameters

The template:Resources/views/fields/eztweet.html.twig

The first thing to do is create the template. It will basically define the default display of a tweet. Remember that field type templates can be overridden in order to tweak what is displayed and how.

Each Field Type template receives a set of variables that can be used to achieve the desired goal. The variable you care about is field, an instance of eZ\Publish\API\Repository\Values\Content\Field. In addition to its own metadata (id, fieldDefIdentifier, etc.), it exposes the Field Value (Tweet\Value) through the value property.

This would work as a primitive template:

{# TweetFieldTypeBundle/Resources/views/fields/eztweet.html.twig #}

{% extends "EzPublishCoreBundle::content_fields.html.twig" %}

{% block eztweet_field %}
    {% spaceless %}
        {{ field.value.contents|raw }}
    {% endspaceless %}
{% endblock %}

field.value.contents is piped through the raw twig operator, since the variable contains HTML code. Without it, the HTML markup would be visible directly, since twig escapes variables by default. Notice that the code is nested within a spaceless tag, so that you can format the template in a readable manner without jeopardizing the display with unwanted spaces.

Using the content field helpers

Even though the above will work just fine, a few helpers will enable you to get something a bit more flexible. The EzPublishCoreBundle::content_fields.html.twig template, where the native Field Type templates are implemented, provides a few helpers: simple_block_field, simple_inline_field and field_attributes. The first two are used to display a field either as a block or inline. field_attributes makes it easier to use the attr variable that contains additional (HTML) attributes for the field.

Let's try to display the value as a block element.

First, you need to make the template inherit from content_fields.html.twig. Then, create a field_value variable that will be used by the helper to print out the content inside the markup. And that's it. The helper will use field_attributes to add the HTML attributes to the generated div.

{# TweetFieldTypeBundle/Resources/views/fields/eztweet.html.twig #}

{% extends "EzPublishCoreBundle::content_fields.html.twig" %}

{% block eztweet_field %}
    {% spaceless %}
        {% set field_value %}
            {{ field.value.contents|raw }}
        {% endset %}
        {{ block( 'simple_block_field' ) }}
    {% endspaceless %}
{% endblock %}

fieldValue is set to the markup you had above, using a {% set %} block. You then call the block function to process the simple_block_field template block.

Registering the template

As explained in the FieldType template documentation, a Field Type template needs to be registered in the eZ Platform semantic configuration. The most basic way to do this would be to do so in app/config/ezplatform.yml:

# app/config/ezplatform.yml

ezpublish:
    global:
        field_templates:
            - { template: "EzSystemsTweetFieldTypeBundle:fields:eztweet.html.twig"}

However, this is far from ideal. You want this to be part of our bundle, so that no manual configuration is required. For that to happen, you need to make the bundle extend the eZ Platform semantic configuration.

To do so, you are going to make your Bundle's dependency injection extension (DependencyInjection/EzSystemsTweetFieldTypeExtension.php) implement Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Extension\PrependExtensionInterface. This interface will let you prepend bundle configuration:

<?php
// TweetFieldTypeBundle/DependencyInjection/EzSystemsTweetFieldTypeExtension.php

use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Extension\PrependExtensionInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Yaml\Yaml;

class EzSystemsTweetFieldTypeExtension extends Extension implements PrependExtensionInterface
{
    public function prepend(ContainerBuilder $container)
    {
        $config = Yaml::parse(file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/../Resources/config/ez_field_templates.yml'));
        $container->prependExtensionConfig('ezpublish', $config);
    }
}

The last thing to do is move the template mapping from app/config/ezplatform.yml to Resources/config/ez_field_templates.yml:

# Resources/config/ez_field_templates.yml

system:
    default:
        field_templates:
            - {template: EzSystemsTweetFieldTypeBundle:fields:eztweet.html.twig, priority: 0}

Notice that the ezpublish yaml block was deleted. This is because you already import your configuration under the ezpublish namespace in the prepend method.

Adding eztweet_settings block

Currently to be able to display a Content item you need to add a twig file with an eztweet_settings block. This behavior is being resolved (EZP-27344), but for now you have to do two more steps.

First, create new file Resources/views/platformui/content_type/view/eztweet.html.twig with following content:

{# TweetFieldTypeBundle/Resources/views/platformui/content_type/view/eztweet.html.twig #}

{% block eztweet_settings %}
{% endblock %}

Then, add its definition to your Resources/config/ez_field_templates.yml, so it looks like this:

system:
    default:
        field_templates:
            - {template: EzSystemsTweetFieldTypeBundle:fields:eztweet.html.twig, priority: 0}
        fielddefinition_settings_templates:
            - {template: EzSystemsTweetFieldTypeBundle:platformui/content_type/view:eztweet.html.twig, priority: 0}

You should now be able to display a Content item with this Field Type from the front office, with a fully functional embed:

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