Information and Communication Technologies Coordinating Office
Mobile App Club
(An introduction to Symfony)
Briland Hitaj
ICTCO, 08.05.2014
2013 - 2014
Presentation Outline
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What is Symfony
Use a Framework??!! WHY???
Ok, but why Symfony???
Let’s get started (Library Project)
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What is Symfony???
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Open Source PHP Web applications development framework
Developed by Sensiolabs
Licensed under MIT Open Source License
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Use a Framework??!! WHY???
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Code and File Organization
Utilities and Libraries
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The MVC Pattern
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Form validation
Input/output filtering
Database Abstraction etc…
Model: representative of your data structures, usually your database
View: page templates and output
Controller: handle requests and bind everything together
Reasons: Cleaner code, easy to extend and maintain faster and more secure
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OK, but why Symfony???
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Fast
Flexible
Expandable (bundles)
Stable
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Let’s get started
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First Download Symfony from http://symphony.com/download
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Download composer
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Download COMPOSER.PHAR from https://getcomposer.org/
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Project Structure
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Execute
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php composer.phar update
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Install the latest and necessary bundles
php composer.phar selfupdate
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Periodically get the latest composer.phar distribution
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Create a bundle
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Symfony works with bundles – a container for your files
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Will contain controllers, views and models (MVC architecture)
To generate a bundle execute:
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php app/console generate:bundle
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What has generate:bundle done???
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Now we are good to go…
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Configure link to database
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app.config/parameters.yml
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Execute…
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php app/console doctrine:mapping:convert annotation ./src
php app/console doctrine:generate:entities MyLibraryMainBundle
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NOW WE ARE READY TO DEVELOP…
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