Mastering Symfony2

Model, View, Controler Architecture

• Processing a HTTP request with Symfony2
• URLs configuration
• Mapping controllers with the routing system
• Creating controller classes and action methods
• Defining views with Twig templates
• Supporting output formats (html, json, xml, atom…)
• Using view helpers in templates
• Using templates inheritance to improve templates independance
• Defining and working with a data model

Contracting a Quality Insurance with Automated Tests

• Introduction to PHPUnit
• Installing the PHPUnit 3.5 unit testing framework
• 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 Twig
• Creating upload forms
• Validating embedded forms
• Defining and working with a data model

Restricting Access to the Application

• Configuring Apache for Symfony2
• Introduction to authentication and authorization principles
• Establishing an authentication with a web form
• Establishing an HTTP authentication
• 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

Extending Symfony2 and Twig

• Configuring new Symfony2 services
• Installing new view helpers
• Extending Twig with macros, functions and filters
• Installing and activating third party bundles