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Controller Kit Bundle — Utilities for Symfony controllers: redirectToReferer (configurable default route) and SafeForwardTrait for safe request forwarding. Tested on Symfony 7.4, 8.0, and 8.1 (also compatible with Symfony 6.x and 7.0–7.3) · PHP 8.1+ (Symfony 8.x requires PHP 8.4+).

Features

• RedirectToRefererTrait — Redirect to the HTTP Referer when valid (same app, route exists), or to a configurable default route. 100% configurable via nowo_controller_kit.default_route.
• SafeForwardTrait — Forward to another controller method with a check that the method exists (avoids runtime errors).

Installation

composer require nowo-tech/controller-kit-bundle

With Symfony Flex, the recipe registers the bundle and adds config. Without Flex, see docs/INSTALLATION.md.

Manual registration in config/bundles.php:

return [
  // ...
  Nowo\ControllerKitBundle\NowoControllerKitBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

Configuration

In config/packages/nowo_controller_kit.yaml:

nowo_controller_kit:
  default_route: homepage  # Route used when redirectToReferer has no valid Referer

Use your own route name (e.g. app_home, dashboard).

Usage

redirectToReferer

Use the trait in a controller that extends AbstractController:

use Nowo\ControllerKitBundle\Controller\RedirectToRefererTrait;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\AbstractController;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

class MyController extends AbstractController
{
  use RedirectToRefererTrait;

  public function submit(Request $request): Response
  {
    // ... handle form ...
    return $this->redirectToReferer($request);
    // Optional: merge params and set status
    // return $this->redirectToReferer($request, ['success' => 1], 303);
  }
}

When the request has a valid Referer header (same host as the current request, path matches a route in your app), the user is redirected there (with path and query params preserved). Otherwise they are redirected to the configured default_route.

safeForward

Use the trait in any controller that has forward() (e.g. AbstractController):

use Nowo\ControllerKitBundle\Controller\SafeForwardTrait;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\AbstractController;

class ApiController extends AbstractController
{
  use SafeForwardTrait;

  public function delegate(): Response
  {
    return $this->safeForward(
      OtherController::class,
      'actionName',
      ['id' => 123],
      ['page' => 1]
    );
  }
}

If OtherController::actionName does not exist, a BadMethodCallException is thrown instead of a generic error.

Documentation

• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
• Contributing
• Changelog
• Upgrading
• Release
• Security
• Engram
• Spec-driven development
• GitHub Spec Kit

Additional documentation

• Demo (FrankenPHP)

Requirements

• PHP >=8.1 (<8.6); Symfony 8.0 and 8.1 require PHP 8.4+
• Symfony 7.4, 8.0, or 8.1 (minimum supported minors; also works on Symfony 6.x and 7.0–7.3 via composer.json constraints)
• For traits: symfony/framework-bundle in your application (AbstractController)

Development

make up
make install
make test
make cs-check
make phpstan
make release-check

Demo

• demo/symfony7 — Symfony 7.4, host port 8010 by default (PORT in .env)
• demo/symfony8 — Symfony 8.1 (PHP 8.4+), host port 8011 by default

Each demo runs FrankenPHP + Caddy in Docker. docker-compose sets APP_ENV=dev and mounts Caddyfile.dev, so PHP runs without long-lived workers (changes visible on refresh). Worker mode is the production Caddyfile path — see docs/DEMO-FRANKENPHP.md.

Global demo commands: make -C demo help (e.g. make -C demo up-symfony8).

Tests and coverage

• Tests: PHPUnit (PHP)
• PHP: 100%

License and author

MIT · Nowo.tech · Héctor Franco Aceituno