How to access a different controller from inside a controller Symfony2

Question

I need to access a method from a different controller inside another controller. How can I do it? Can I use this->get method?

Can I include the controller inside my current controller and make a object of it and access the method via the object? Is it "ok" to do it this way?

I want to call the form method --- newAction of the other controller.

Answer 1

If you don't want to define the class as a service, as it doesn't feel as a good practice to me and @Qoop quoted Fabien saying the same, you can use forwarding:

http://symfony.com/doc/current/controller/forwarding.html

public function indexAction($name) {     $response = $this->forward('AcmeHelloBundle:Hello:fancy', array(         'name'  => $name,         'color' => 'green',     ));      // ... further modify the response or return it directly      return $response; } 

If you need to embed the output of an internal controller-action in a template, the documentation for Symfony also has something for that.