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...)

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

Security

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

Restricting Access to the Application

• Configuring an Apache virtual host for a Symfony2 project
• Introduction to authentication and authorization principles
• Establishing an authentication with a web form
• Establishing an HTTP authentication
• Restricting actions thanks to an access control list
• Testing user's permissions from within the controller and the view layers

Improving Client Side Performances with HTTP Caching and ESI

• Introduction to HTTP cache
• Comparing caching solutions (HTTP, APC, memcached...)
• Modifying the response object before it is sent to the client
• Applying validation and expiration rules with HTTP headers.
• Discovering and using Edge Side Includes (ESI)
• Installing et configuring the Symfony2 Reverse Proxy Cache

Extending Symfony2 and Twig

• Understanding the Dependency Injection (or Inversion of Control) design pattern
• Configuring new Symfony2 services in the dependency injection container
• Extending Twig with macros, functions and filters
• Installing and activating third party bundles