These slides only form a short theoretical introduction for a workshop I gave.

1. workshop
Ibuildings Presentation
Ibuildings
The PHP Professionals
www.ibuildings.nl
+31 118 429 550
info@ibuildings.nl
Ibuildings
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2. What will we do?
• Symfony installation
• A short overview into the symfony structure
• An introduction in the symfony CLI
• Database model creation without phpMyAdmin
• Creating a simple front-end
• Creating a simple admin interface
• Any questions... just ask!
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3. Symfony installation
• We won’t do it, I’ll just tell about it ;)
• PEAR
 pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
 pear install symfony/symfony
• SVN
 checkout
 externals
• Sandbox - no central installation
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4. Symfony structure
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5. Symfony structure
• Project
global entity
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holds everything
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most of this outside the document root

web/ directory should be document root
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• Application
 Slightly less global entity
 A group of modules that together form an app
 Most common use: frontend and backend
• Module
 Specific functionality, mostly around one data entity
 For instance: “post” for the weblog post, “comment” for
comments to a weblog post
 But data might mix... comments to a post
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6. Symfony CLI
• Your development friend
• Automates boring tasks like
initializing your project
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initializing applications and modules
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writing models
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altering models to reflect schema changes
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writing full administration interface

writing basic (CRUD) actions
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deployment of your application
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7. Symfony CLI
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8. Symfony CLI
• Most important beginner commands
symfony init-project / symfony new
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symfony init-app / symfony app
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symfony propel-build-model
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symfony propel-build-sql / symfony propel-insert-sql
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symfony propel-generate-crud
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symfony init-module
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symfony propel-init-admin
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• And slightly further ahead
 symfony plugin-install
 symfony freeze
 symfony sync
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9. YAML
• YAML Ain't Markup Language
• Simple, readable text format
• Used widely in symfony for configuration
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10. Creating your database
• Database schema is defined in YML
 config/schema.yml
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11. Creating your database
• Ensure settings in config/propel.ini are correct
• symfony propel-build-model
• symfony propel-build-sql
• symfony propel-insert-sql
• or: symfony-propel-build-all
• Configuring for your app:
 config/databases.yml
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12. Creating a simple frontend
• Creating an empty module
 symfony init-module frontend simple
• Creating a CRUD module
 symfony propel-generate-crud <app> <module>
<model>
 symfony propel-generate-crud frontend weblog Weblog
• Now you have your basic functionality
 But you won’t need everything
• visitors need not delete posts
• visitors need not create posts (well, usually...)
 So... refactoring
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13. Creating a simple backend
• symfony propel-init-admin <app> <module>
<model>
• symfony propel-init-admin backend weblog
Weblog
• Module seems empty, but contains all usual
admin functionality
• Still very flexible, with configuration:
generator.yml
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14. That’s it for the overview
• Now go to work!
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