Symfony: How to include custom functions in the view

I have a populated list, and I want to utilize a custom function to shorten row names which are too long to display. The rows from the list are generated from an object passed from the action/controller. How/where do I include m开发者_运维知识库y custom function for to achieve the above mentioned purpose?

Any advice appreciated.

I guess you need helpers:

http://www.symfony-project.org/book/1_2/07-Inside-the-View-Layer

Use this function in _toString method of the object to display its name.