An Introduction to Symfony

1. A Glimpse of
Muhammadali Shaduli
www.shaduli.com

2. About Me
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PHP Developer since 2003.
Symfony Developer since 2008
Open source Consultant
Trainer
Lead Developer at Como Group Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
A loving Husband and Father

3. What is Symfony 2 ?

4. ü Symfony2 is a PHP Web Development framework.
ü Symfony2 is a reusable set of standalone, decoupled, and
cohesive PHP components that solve common web
development problems.
ü Then, based on these components, Symfony2 is also a
full-­‐‑stack web framework.

5. Really, What is it ?

6. ² Wri@en for PHP 5.3 .
² Anonymous Functions and Closures
² Late Static Binding
² Standalone Components
² Born from a company called SensioLabs

7. Does not reinvent the
wheel

8. ² Doctrine
² PHPUnit
² SwiftMailer
² Twig

9. The Components

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BrowserKit
ClassLoader
Config
Console
CssSelector
Debug
DependencyInjection
DomCrawler
EventDispatcher
Filesystem
Finder
Form
H@pFoundation
H@pKernel
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Locale
Intl
Icu
OptionsResolver
Process
PropertyAccess
Routing
Security
Serializer
Stopwatch
Templating
Translation
Validator
Yaml

11. What is Symfony 2
framework ?

12. Project Structure

14. Application Flow

16. Routes

17. ² blog_show can be anything
² pa@ern – uri to match
² defaults – controller shortcut

18. Controllers

19. ² Goal is to always return HNpResponse Object

20. Views

21. ² Very extensible

22. Doctrine (Models)

24. How do we use it ?

26. Looking up entities

28. Many More…
² Services
² Dependency Injection
² Console Commands
² Security
² Forms
² Unit Testing

29. Training Sessions
² Object Oriented PHP
² HTTP
² Symfony 2 Architecture
² Standardization
² Bundle Best Practices
² Controllers
² Routing
² Twig
² Forms
² Validation
² Dependency Injection
² Security
² HTTP Caching
² Command Line Interface
² Automated Testing
² Error Management and Debugging