Web Development 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
• Standard edition installation
• Symfony2 project architecture (application, bundles, libraries)
• HTTP request and response principle
• Routing configuration
• Environments
• Creating a new Bundle architecture

Configuration and Debugging Tools

• The web debug toolbar
• The profiler application
• Annotations, XML, YAML and PHP configuration

Templating with Twig

• Twig template engine syntax
• Templates inheritance
• Templates and actions inclusion
• View helpers: filters, functions and macros
• Supporting output formats (html, json, xml, atom…)

HTTP Request Processing

• Designing controller classes and actions
• Mapping controllers with the routing system
• Generating raw responses and template based responses
• Accessing request data
• Dealing with the end user's session
• Dealing with cookies
• Triggering a 404 error page and redirects

Interacting with a Relational Database

• Introduction to PDO (DSN, prepared statements, transactions...)
• Opening a connection on an SQLite or MySQL server
• Executing an SQL query on the database
• Securing SQL queries with transactions and prepared statements
• Factoring the business logic into model classes
• Implementing the data mapper or active record patterns for model classes

Handling End User's Forms Submission

• Discovering the form framework
• Creating and processing basic forms
• Defining validation rules to validate submitted data
• Prototyping the form rendering with Twig
• Retrieving validated user's data
• Designing and validating advanced forms (embedded forms, file upload...)

Security

• Securing your code against XSS issues
• Securing your code against CSRF issues
• Protecting your SQL queries to avoid SQL injection issues

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