Symfony - A baptism of fire

A deep dive into creating a basic blog in Symfony2. The aim is to demonstrate the power of modern PHP development techniques.

Code available at https://github.com/tommygnr/phpmelb-symfony-blog

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1. Symfony 2 A baptism of fire
2. About Me • Developing for the web for 4 years • Developing with Symfony2 for a year and a half • Lead developer of CRS Certus • CTO Rostercloud
3. Symfony 2 • Most popular PHP framework on GitHub • Over 700 committers • Doesn’t suffer from NIH • uses doctrine, twig, monolog
4. Tonight’s plan • Creating a basic blog • Three entities • post • user • comment • Demonstrate power of modern php development
5. Starting a new symfony app • Download archive with all dependencies • Download archive without dependencies, run composer install/update • composer create-project
6. References • Code: github.com/tommygnr/phpmelb-symfony-blog • Slides: speakerdeck.com/u/tommygnr