Step into Symfony 2

Presented at Drupal Dundee User Group. April 2014.

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1. Drupal Dundee Step into Symfony2 • What is Symfony • HTTP Requests • Demo • Drupal 8 and Symfony
2. “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” - Fabien Potencier What is Symfony2?
6. HTTP is Simple
7. PHP Handling a request and providing a response in PHP
8. Symfony2 – Interacting with a Request
9. Symfony2 – Providing a Response The basic goal of every web application is always to interpret a request and create the appropriate response based on your application logic.
10. The Hard Part …
11. Symfony Application Flow
12. Some Symfony Concepts • Environment – set of configuration that the application runs within. Symfony ships with ‘dev’ and ‘prod’. • Bundle – similar to a plugin/module. Implements a specific feature. E.g. BlogBundle, ForumBundle. • Controller - A PHP function or method that handles incoming requests and returns responses (often HTML code). • View – templates the data from the controller.
13. • Yet Another Markup Language • Used for creating simple hierarchical documents. • Less verbose than XML • YAML is most prominent configuration format in Symfony2 A Quick Note on YAML
14. Source: http://movabletype.org/documentation/developer/a-yaml-primer-yet- another-markup-language.html
15. Symfony Directory Structure • app/: the application configuration; • src/: the project's PHP code; • vendor/: the third-party dependencies; • web/: the web root directory.
16. Demo Application
17. Hello World - Defining the Route
18. Hello World - The Controller
19. Hello World – Rendering Templates /src/Acme/DemoBundle/Resources/views/Demo
20. Symfony and Drupal
23. Drupal 8 – Step Through Code with Debugger
24. Further Reading • Symfony2 - http://symfony.com/doc/current/quick_tour/t he_big_picture.html