Symfony 1.4 & Doctrine for Experts

REST Web Services with symfony

• Understanding the REST architecture
• Understanding the URI and HTTP protocol concepts
• Building RESTful web services with symfony
• Generating several ouput open formats as HTML, XML or JSON
• Discovering the special sf_format request parameter
• Using the symfony's RESTful API
• Creating routes depending on the model and HTTP methods
• Using the Zend_Http component from the Zend Framework
• Handling errors
• Caching service's responses locally thanks to sfFileCache

SOAP Web Services with symfony

• Understanding SOA architecture's principles
• Understanding the SOAP protocol (request, response, wsdl...)
• Sharing data with the SOAP protocol
• Integrating the Zend_Soap component from the Zend Framework
• Sharing scalar data or arrays with SOAP
• Consuming a SOAP service from a symfony client
• Consuming a SOAP service with SOAP UI

Automated Test on Web Services

• Writing unit tests to check the model and service classes
• Writing functional tests to check web services
• Simulating web services on the client application (mocking)
• Validating output formats and HTTP status codes
• Validating a XML file with an XSD schema
• Simulating GET, POST, PUT and DELETE HTTP methods

Extend the symfony's Command Line Toool

• Creating new simple automated tasks
• Creating new interactive automated tasks
• Adding new arguments and options to tasks
• Executing new tasks

Symfony meets Ajax

• Ajax introduction
• Creating simple Ajax calls with jQuery
• Implementing Ajax actions in symfony
• Integration a basic search engine with Ajax autocompletion
• Discovering Ajax third party widgets in sfFormExtraPlugin

PDF Document Generation with symfony

• Introduction to PHP's PDF libraries
• Integrating the Zend_PDF component
• Adding dynamic texts in a PDF document
• Adding geometric shapes in a PDF document
• Refactoring the PDF business logic to the model

Internationalization and Localization

• Identifying translatable strings on the interface with __()
• Translating the user interface with an XLIFF dictionary
• Formatting dates, numbers and currencies
• Managing strings containing singular and plural values
• Creating routes for each language

Authentification, ACLs and LDAP

• Installing and activating the sfDoctrineGuardPlugin plugin
• Implementing an authentification form
• Creating new user accounts from the CLI
• Securing some pages for non authenticated users
• Implementing a security policy based on users roles
• Coupling sfDoctrineGuardPlugin with an LDAP directory