Presentation of Symfony for the first Symfony User Group Belgium Meetup in 2013

1. Symfony User Group Belgium

2. Agenda
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Who are we?
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Why???
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Who are you!
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Introduction to Symfony2
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What’s next…

3. Me, myself and I
Jean-Christophe Cuvelier
Partner @ Morris & Chapman Belgium
Founder @ Pictawall.com
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Web entrepreneur
Begun with a Commodore 64
Creative PHP developer
be.linkedin.com/in/totophe
github.com/totophe
@totophe

4. The other Me
Eric Rodriguez
CTO
@ Auctelia.com
Founder @ Data.be
@ Pictawall.com
• Web
entrepreneur
• Multi-Language: PHP, Java/Groovy/Grails, .Net, …
be.linkedin.com/in/erodriguez
github.com/wavyx
@wavyx

5. Symfony
2

6. A little bit of history
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symfony 1.0 (2007) : Let’s_glue_this_thing
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symfony 1.2 (2008) : Ok, component
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symfony 1.4 (2009) : To the infinity and beyond!
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Symfony 2.0 (2011) : Those aren’t the droids you’re looking for…
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Symfony 2.1 (2012) : “Out of beta”
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Symfony 2.2 (2013) : Natural evolution
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Symfony 2.3 (2013) : Let’s Talk LTS

7. What is Symfony?
Yeah, right, but what is Symfony?
“Symfony2 is a reusable set of standalone, decoupled, and
cohesive PHP components that solve common web
development problems.”
“Based on these components, Symfony2 is also a full-stack
web framework.”
http://fabien.potencier.org/article/49/what-is-symfony2

8. Wait… What?
Symfony components
Full PHP framework

9. Symfony components
DependencyInjection
EventDispatcher
HttpFoundation
DomCrawler
ClassLoader
CssSelector
HttpKernel
BrowserKit
Templating
Translation
Serializer
Validator
Security
Routing
Console
Process
Config
Finder
Locale
Yaml
Form
http://symfony.com/componen
ts

10. Who use the components
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Drupal 8
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Doctrine
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Propel
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PHPUnit
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Silex
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Laravel
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{{ you.name.it }}

11. Why using Symfony?
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Very fast prototyping
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Easy stack
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Fast
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PHP 5.3
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Encourage best practices
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State of the art php dev
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Flexible and Extensible
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Stable and established
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Testable
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Professional support available

12. Extensible
Bundles
Bundles
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Everything is structured in Bundles
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Core bundles
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KPN Bundles
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Your own bundles

13. Extensible
Composer
Composer
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Composer: Dependency Manager for PHP
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Easy definitions
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CLI interface
Work with custom repositories
Packagist: Main repository for Composer

14. Useful Bundles
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FOSUserBundle
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StofDoctrineExtensionsBundle
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HWIOAuthBundle
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SonataAdminBundle
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…

15. Install Symfony
curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar
create-project
symfony/framework-standard-edition
/path/to/webroot/Symfony
2.3.*

16. Symfony Documentation
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The Book:
http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/index.html
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Components explained:
http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/index.html
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Google is your friend

17. Symfony community
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Stack Overflow: A lot of information for Symfony
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Mailing lists: http://symfony.com/mailing-lists
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Forum: http://forum.symfony-project.org/
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IRC: Freenode - channel #symfony
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Symfony Live: http://live.symfony.com/

18. Live Demo?

19. Thank you!
jcc@pictawall.com - @totophe
be.linkedin.com/in/totophe - github.com/totophe
http://www.meetup.com/Symfony-User-GroupBelgium/

20. What’s next…
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More presentations
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Bundles
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Hands-on Symfony (beginner/advanced)
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Common project/bundle
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Contribute to Sf
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….