Netgen Layouts: Building Pages with Symfony

Netgen Layouts is about having your 🎂 - i.e. any Symfony app - and eating it too... by allowing you to rearrange your pages and mix in dynamic content via an admin area. Yup, your Symfony app & Twig templates + the power of a CMS tacked into the side. And all of this is done in a gently way, without "taking over" your app.

In this tutorial, we'll go from zero to hero by installing Layouts into an existing Symfony app:

• Installing & Setting up Layouts
• Mapping a "Layout" to existing pages
• Including your existing Twig blocks in your layout
• Adding custom "value types" and "query types" so you can embed grids/lists of the custom content from your app
• Customizing "item views": the templates used in grids/lists
• Creating a "content browser" to manually select content from your app
• Pulling content from a CMS - Contentful for our example
• Theming! Powerful and simple way to override templates
• Block Views: customizing how a block renders
• Block Plugins: adding custom options to every block in the system

Layouts is fun: adding a new level of flexibility without changing how you build your app.

• Hello Layouts+ Setup!
• Creating & Mapping Layouts
• Adding Twig Blocks to your Dynamic Layout
• Shared Layouts
• Adding More Customized Blocks
• Adding Lists: Value Type
• Value Converter
• Item View Template
• Frontend Item View
• Ajax Pagination & CSS/JS
• Content Browser
• Content Browser: Returning the Items
• Value Loader + Preview Template
• Contentful: Loading Data from an External CMS
• Mapping a Layout to Contentful Pages
• Building the Contentful Page
• Customizing the Contentful Slugger
• The Skills List Page + A Grid of Skills
• Themes & Overriding Templates
• Block Views & View Types
• Deep Dive into Item Views
• Prepending Config
• Contentful Item Template
• Block Views & Block Definitions
• Custom Block View
• Custom Item View Type
• Block Plugins