Introduction to Symfony


Course Number: SYM-100
Duration: 2 days (13 hours)
Format: Live, hands-on

Getting Started with Symfony Training Overview

This online or in-person Introduction to Symfony training course teaches attendees how to use the Symfony 6 framework to build dynamic websites and web applications. Students build their projects from scratch and learn official best practices from our expert Symfony developers/trainers.

Note: This course is capped at 8 attendees, overriding Accelebrate’s standard 15-attendee cap.

Location and Pricing

Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.

Objectives

  • Become familiar with the Symfony framework
  • Create a Symfony project from scratch
  • Discover the structure and organization of project directories and files
  • Apply the MVC pattern to properly separate concerns in your Symfony applications
  • Build your web application’s interface using Twig templates and the Webpack Encore asset manager
  • Work with Symfony forms and object persistence via Doctrine
  • Apply Symfony best practices

Prerequisites

All Symfony training students must know the basics of PHP and object-oriented programming. If attendees don’t have prior PHP experience, please let us know and we will add a PHP primer to the class (extend it by up to a day).

Outline

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Introduction
  • Overview of the Symfony project, including license, releases, roadmap, guidelines with Symfony framework, and useful components
  • Work environment and Symfony command-line tool
  • Installation of a Symfony project
First Steps with Symfony
  • How to handle a Request-Response flow
  • Creating your first web page
  • Fine-tuning your application routes with parameters and requirements
  • Best practices when using controllers and their helpers
Introduction to Functional Tests
  • Explanations about automated tests and functional tests
  • Get ready with PHPUnit to run automated tests
  • Writing your first test to check a status code over a web page
  • Using a data provider to provide URLs to be checked
Templating with Twig
  • Introduction to Twig
  • Twig’s basic syntax
  • Using the Dot syntax helper in your templates
  • Using Twig to loop over data from a controller and test some conditions to design your web page
  • Using layout techniques with inheritance and template inclusions to reduce your template
  • Best solutions to get help with the Symfony console and the web profiler
  • Creating dynamic URLs in templates to access another web page or link an asset
Web Assets with Webpack Encore
  • Introduction to Webpack Encore and Yarn
  • Installation and configuration of the required bundle
  • Optimizing assets with Webpack Encore
Introduction to Doctrine
  • The Doctrine ORM and configuration of your project to access the database
  • Entities and their mapping with the Symfony maker
  • Migrations to manage the state of your database at anytime
  • Handling relations between 2 entities
  • Storing data in the database by using a controller 
  • Retrieving data from the database by using built-in or custom queries
Forms
  • Introduction to Symfony forms
  • Custom types
  • Handling submitted data
  • Using Symfony built-in constraints to get validated data
Conclusion

Training Materials

All attendees receive comprehensive courseware.

Software Requirements

  • Windows PCs or Macs with local administrator rights
  • PHP 8 or later
  • The following PHP extensions installed: ctype, filter, iconv, intl, json, mbstring, openssl, pdo, pdo_sqlite, session, simplexml sodium, tokenizer, xml, xmlwriter, and xsl
  • SQLite3, MariaDB, or MySQL
  • Composer 2.x or later
  • Symfony and Symfony CLI
  • Npm or Yarn
  • GitHub account for each participant, or a private repository + GIT account provided by your organization to our instructor
  • Git


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