Going Further with Symfony
Learn more about the Symfony features set with advanced tools like caching, security and dependency injection management.
In one day, learn some of the most famous advanced Symfony features like HTTP caching and security.
Coming sessions
Goals
This workshop dives into Symfony advanced features. It covers some of the best features in just one single day. You will learn how to master the dependency injection container configuration and write cacheable contents for an HTTP cache like Varnish. You will also discover how to setup a form based authentication system plugged to your users table and add some basic authorization rules.
Program
Symfony Basics
- Request handling
- Passing variables to the view
- Triggering redirections
- Triggering 404 pages
- 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
Dependency Injection
- Introduction to dependency injection principle
- Configuring the DIC
- Creating services from an XML description
Automated Tests
- Installing PHPUnit
- Writing simple functional testing files
- Executing an automated tests suite
- Generating and analyzing code coverage reports
Dealing with Forms & Validation
- Creating and processing basic forms
- Adding validation rules on attributes, methods and class itself
- Prototyping forms rendering with Twig
Authentication & Authorization
- Adding a form based authentication
- Managing users in a database
- Using roles and account status to restrict pages
HTTP Caching with ESI
- Introduction to HTTP caching
- Expiration vs Validation
- Enabling the Symfony Reverse Proxy Cache
- Caching pieces of the application with Edge Side Includes
Doctrine Integration
- Configuring the database connection
- Generating entity models with the command line
- Querying the database through repository objects
- Persisting entities to the database
Session details
Reference code
SF2W2
Price
Starts at €350.00 (ex. tax)
Audience
Developers
Duration
1 day (7 hours)
Training type
Workshop
Topics
forms, validation, caching, esi, security
Pre-requisites
Symfony2 basics