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I need to send the URL of a Drupal 8 route to a template. I read some documentation on Drupal API, but when I implement this in my module, nothing happens.

My route in my routing file looks like the following.

movies.addMovie:
    path: /movies/add/{system}/{id}
    defaults:
        _controller: 'Drupal\movies\Controller\InsertController:addMovie'
        _title: 'Add Movie'
        system: ''
        id: ''
    requirements:
        _permission: 'create movies_movie'

This is the code I am using to get the URL from the route.

use Drupal\Core\Url;
Url::fromRoute('movies.addMovie')

When I put the URL in a variable, the code stops when calling Url::fromRoute(). Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

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  • Can you paste the entire error?
    – Kevin
    Jan 9 '17 at 16:44
  • No errors are thrown. The line is just skipped.
    – JimmyD
    Jan 9 '17 at 16:46
  • So you assign a breakpoint and set a variable to the result of that call and nothing happens?
    – Kevin
    Jan 9 '17 at 16:50
  • Indeed. When I place a breakpoint on the call and one after the call, the one after the call is not be hit.
    – JimmyD
    Jan 9 '17 at 16:52
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    Looks like you found the twig wrapp function url() -- you should use that inside twig. If you're set on using Url::fromRoute(), then you probably want to call Url::toString() on the returned Url object. Like: $url_string = Url::fromRoute('add.movie')->toString();
    – aaronbauman
    Jan 9 '17 at 17:26
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should be: InsertController::addMovie

Needs a double-colon. Yours is single.

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Found a way to generate the url of my route using twig template.

I'm now using the url function of twig to generate the full url to my page:

{{ url('movies.addMovie')}}
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