Practical Symfony2

Covered Topics

1. Symfony Basics
   • Installing Symfony
   • Discovering the architecture
   • Creating and activating bundles
   • HTTP Request handling
   • Passing variables to the view
   • Triggering redirects and 404 errors
   • Reading the user's request
   • Rendering views with Twig template engine
   • Managing the application logic in Controllers
   • Encapsulating the business logic into the Model layer
   • Rendering pages with the View layer and templates
   • Configurating routes in YAML, XML, PHP or annotations
   • Managing cookies and session
2. Dependency Injection & Service Container
   • Introduction to dependency injection principle
   • Configuring the service container
   • Creating services from an XML description
   • Configuration best practices
3. Functional testing with PHPUnit
   • Installing PHPUnit
   • Writing simple functional testing files
   • Executing an automated tests suite
   • Generating and analyzing code coverage reports
4. Dealing with Forms & Validation
   • Creating and processing basic forms
   • Adding validation rules
   • Prototyping forms rendering with Twig
   • Processing forms
5. Authentication & Authorization
   • Adding a form based authentication
   • Managing users in a database
   • Using roles and account status to restrict pages
6. HTTP Caching with ESI
   • Introduction to HTTP caching
   • Expiration versus Validation
   • Enabling the Symfony Reverse Proxy Cache
   • Caching pieces of the application with Edge Side Includes
7. Doctrine Integration
• Configuring the database connection
• Generating entity models with the command line
• Querying the database through repository objects
• Persisting entities to the database
• Writing custom SQL queries with the Doctrine Query Builder

Software requirements to attend

Bring your personal laptop with the following software configuration already setup:

• PHP > 5.3.4 or PHP 5.4.x
• XDebug
• MySQL with PDO driver for PHP
• PHPUnit > 3.7