Information and Communication Technologies Coordinating Office

2013 - 2014

Mobile App Club(An introduction

to Symfony)Briland Hitaj

ICTCO, 08.05.2014

Presentation Outline What is Symfony Use a Framework??!! WHY??? Ok, but why Symfony??? Let’s get started (Library Project)

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What is Symfony??? Open Source PHP Web applications

development framework Developed by Sensiolabs Licensed under MIT Open Source License

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Use a Framework??!! WHY??? Code and File Organization Utilities and Libraries

Form validation Input/output filtering Database Abstraction etc…

The MVC Pattern Model: representative of your data structures,

usually your database View: page templates and output Controller: handle requests and bind everything

together Reasons: Cleaner code, easy to extend and

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OK, but why Symfony??? Fast Flexible Expandable (bundles) Stable

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Let’s get started First Download Symfony from

http://symphony.com/download

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Download composer Download COMPOSER.PHAR from

https://getcomposer.org/

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Project Structure

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Execute php composer.phar update

Install the latest and necessary bundles php composer.phar selfupdate

Periodically get the latest composer.phar distribution

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Create a bundle Symfony works with bundles – a container

for your files Will contain controllers, views and models (MVC

architecture) To generate a bundle execute:

php app/console generate:bundle

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What has generate:bundle done???

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Now we are good to go… Configure link to database

app.config/parameters.yml

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Execute… php app/console doctrine:mapping:convert

annotation ./src php app/console doctrine:generate:entities

MyLibraryMainBundle

NOW WE ARE READY TO DEVELOP…

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Thank You!!!