Learning Symfony 3

Learn how to use Symfony 3, one of the most robust and popular PHP Model-View-Controller frameworks on the market.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files
• Project overview
• What is Symfony?
• Set up the local environment: Mac
• Set up your local environment: Windows

1. Get Started with Symfony

• Install Symfony
• Explore the Symfony file structure

2. Controllers in Symfony

• Contollers: What, why, and how?
• Create routes
• Send parameters to a controller
• Use views

3. Views in Symfony

• Update routes
• Create templates with Twig, part 1
• Create templates with Twig, part 2
• Mock up data
• Challenge: Select a title
• Solution: Select a title
• Use forms, part 1
• Use forms, part 2

4. Data Modeling with Symfony

• Introduction to Doctrine
• Create the application models
• Structure the database
• Database relationships
• Insert data with Doctrine
• Select data with Doctrine
• Edit entities
• Work with relational data
• Debug the application

5. Taking Symfony Further

• Composer
• PHPUnit
• Log data
• Demo application deployment

Conclusion

• Next steps