Symfony2: How to get user Object inside controller when using FOSUserBundle?
I think Ramon is right. You already have the user object.
Also in Symfony > 2.1.x you can use
$this->getUser();inside the controller.
The documentation for the getUser method indicates:
either returns an object which implements __toString(), or a primitive string is returned.
And if we look in the FOS\UserBundle\Model\User class over here (the base user class used by the FOSUserBundle) we can see that it does indeed have a __toString method:
public function __toString(){ return (string) $this->getUsername();}I think that you actually get the User object but because it implements a __toString method it can be rendered directly in templates.
In Twig you can use:
{{ dump(user) }}To see what kind of object you have. But You are actually using an object, not a string.
Solution:
$userManager = $this->container->get('fos_user.user_manager');$user = $userManager->findUserByUsername($this->container->get('security.context') ->getToken() ->getUser())