Mastering Symfony2

Contracting a Quality Insurance with Automated Tests

• Introduction to PHPUnit
• Installing PHPUnit
• Understanding the goals of unit testing the code
• Configuring a new unit test suite for PHPUnit
• Writing unit tests cases
• Executing the unit tests suite
• Generating and understanding the code coverage report
• Writing and executing functional tests

Interacting with the User and Forms

• Discovering the form framework
• Creating and processing basic forms
• Applying validation rules on each form fields
• Prototyping forms rendering with Twig
• Customizing forms rendering with themes
• Defining and working with a data model
• Applying validation constraints on submitted data

Restricting Access to the Application

• Configuring Apache for Symfony2
• Introduction to authentication and authorization principles
• Establishing an authentication with a web form
• Establishing a security policy with access control list
• Testing user’s access rights

Improving Client Side Performances with HTTP Cache and ESI

• Introduction to HTTP cache
• Comparing several caching solutions
• Modifying the response object before it’s sent to the client
• Applying validation and expiration rules on pages
• Discovering and using Edge Side Includes (ESI)
• Installing et configuring the Symfony2 Reverse Proxy Cache

Dependency Injection and Service Container

• Understanding the dependency injection principle
• Introduction to services container
• Listing Symfony built-in services
• Registering new services in the container
• Accessing a service from the container
• Reading and writing global parameters from the container
• Exposing and validating a semantic configuration for a bundle