Starting in Symfony2: Course 4 (2.4+)

Welcome back for part 4 of our Starting in Symfony2 series! We've got some really important topics planned and we're going to start with mastering assets and the Assetic library. We'll bust cache, minimize our CSS & JS files and get you ready to do just about anything with your static assets. We'll also dive much deeper into form rendering - customizing our forms to work with Twitter Bootstrap and learning a lot more about the powerful and advanced mechanisms behind form theming. Finally, we'll cover deployment: what steps are always necessary and some options for automating the process. Let's do this!

Highlights:

• The Twig asset function
• More about Dependency Injection Parameters and the purpose of parameters.yml
• Cache busting with assets_version and assets_version_format
• Introduction to Assetic
• Assetic filters, including cssrewrite, cssmin and the apply_to option
• Dumping assets in the prod and dev environments and the secret of turning use_controllers to false
• The basics of form customization and theming
• FormView "variables" - what they are and how you can use them to do just about anything while customizing how a form renders
• Using the finishView to control FormView "variables"
• The steps and best practices for deployment with tips on automating the process

• Introduction
• Assets and Cache Busting
• Busting Browser Cache and Using a CDN
• Assetic: Filters, Combination and Minification
• Combining and Minifying CSS & JS
• Applying a Minification Filter
• Form Template Customizations
• Error Formatting for Twitter Bootstrap
• Adding form-control to the input
• More Form Customizations (Form Theming)
• An Aside: Dependency Injection Parameters
• Deployment
• Goodbye Friend!