Symfony Development Basics

Course Objectives

In this 2-day 'Web Development with Symfony - Basics' course, you will learn how to build dynamic websites and web applications using the Symfony framework. Participants will build their projects from scratch and learn best practices from our experienced Symfony developers/trainers.

 

Target Audience

  • Web Developers

Pre-requisites

  • Basic knowledge of PHP and object-oriented programming

Learning Methodology

The course offers a balanced mix of theory and practice in a world-class learning environment. Benefit from direct interaction with our project experienced trainers and other students to maximise your learning success.

 

Agenda

  • Overview of the Symfony Project
    • Licences
    • Release history
    • Roadmap
    • Getting Started with the Symfony Framework
    • Symfony Components
  • Environment and Symfony command line tool
  • Installing a Symfony Project

  • Understanding the request-response flow
  • Creating a website
  • Fine-tuning your application routes with parameters and requirements
  • Best practices for using controllers

  • Automated and functional testing
  • Preparing to run automated tests with PHPUnit
  • Checking a status code via a web page
  • Using a data provider to provide URLs to test

  • Introduction to Twig
  • Twig syntax
  • Using the dot syntax help
  • Using Twig to retrieve data from a controller
  • Testing the design of your website
  • Using layout techniques with inheritance and template inclusion
  • Getting help with the Symfony console and web profiler
  • Creating dynamic URLs in templates to access another website or link to an asset

  • Introduction to Webpack Encore and Yarn
  • Installing and configuring the required bundle
  • Optimising assets with Webpack Encore

  • The Doctrine ORM and configuring your project to access the database
  • Entities and their mapping with Symfony Maker
  • Migrations to manage the state of your database at any time
  • Managing relationships between 2 entities
  • Storing data in the database using a controller
  • Retrieve data from the database using built-in or custom queries

  • Introduction to Symfony Forms
  • User-defined types
  • Dealing with submitted data
  • Symfony's built-in constraints for retrieving validated data