Getting Started with Symfony2

Object Oriented Programming

• Classes vs objects
• Constructor / destructor
• Properties and methods
• Inheritance
• Visibility
• Exceptions
• Namespaces

Exploring Symfony2

• General introduction to the framework and its integrated tools
• Sandbox installation
• Symfony2 project architecture (application, bundles, libraries)
• Processing an HTTP request with Symfony2
• Understanding environment principle
• Coding conventions

Debugging the code

• The web debug toolbar
• Recorded logs
• Profiler
• Exception traces

Configuring the application

• Configuring the application
• Comparing supported formats: XML, YAML and PHP
• Application global configuration
• URIs global configuration
• Overriding global configuration at the bundle level

Generating pages for the end user

• Twig template engine syntax
• Templates
• Twig versus PHP
• Templates inheritance
• Templates inclusion
• Actions inclusion
• Defining and includings slots
• Generating URIs thanks to view helpers

Creating actions and analyzing the end user's request

• Defining a Controller class and its action methods
• Mapping controllers with the routing system
• Generating a raw response or a response based on a template
• Reading data from the user’s request ($_GET / $_POST / $_COOKIE)
• Reading and writing data in the user’s session
• Reading and writing a cookie
• Multiple configuration thanks to file inclusion and overriding
• Triggering a 404 error page
• Redirecting the end user to another page

Interacting with a relational database

• Introduction to PDO (DSN, prepared statements, transactions…)
• Getting a SQLite or MySQL connection
• Executing a SQL query on the database
• Securing SQL queries with a transaction and prepared statements
• Factoring the business logic into model classes

Interacting with the end user with forms

• Discovering the form framework
• Creating and processing basic forms
• Applying validation rules on your fields
• Prototyping form rendering with Twig
• Retrieving validated user’s input