Getting Started with Symfony Training Overview
This online or in-person Introduction to Symfony training course teaches attendees how to use the Symfony 6 framework to build dynamic websites and web applications. Students build their projects from scratch and learn official best practices from our expert Symfony developers/trainers.
Note: This course is capped at 8 attendees, overriding Accelebrate’s standard 15-attendee cap.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Become familiar with the Symfony framework
- Create a Symfony project from scratch
- Discover the structure and organization of project directories and files
- Apply the MVC pattern to properly separate concerns in your Symfony applications
- Build your web application’s interface using Twig templates and the Webpack Encore asset manager
- Work with Symfony forms and object persistence via Doctrine
- Apply Symfony best practices
Prerequisites
All Symfony training students must know the basics of PHP and object-oriented programming. If attendees don’t have prior PHP experience, please let us know and we will add a PHP primer to the class (extend it by up to a day).
Outline
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Introduction
- Overview of the Symfony project, including license, releases, roadmap, guidelines with Symfony framework, and useful components
- Work environment and Symfony command-line tool
- Installation of a Symfony project
First Steps with Symfony
- How to handle a Request-Response flow
- Creating your first web page
- Fine-tuning your application routes with parameters and requirements
- Best practices when using controllers and their helpers
Introduction to Functional Tests
- Explanations about automated tests and functional tests
- Get ready with PHPUnit to run automated tests
- Writing your first test to check a status code over a web page
- Using a data provider to provide URLs to be checked
Templating with Twig
- Introduction to Twig
- Twig’s basic syntax
- Using the Dot syntax helper in your templates
- Using Twig to loop over data from a controller and test some conditions to design your web page
- Using layout techniques with inheritance and template inclusions to reduce your template
- Best solutions to get help with the Symfony console and the web profiler
- Creating dynamic URLs in templates to access another web page or link an asset
Web Assets with Webpack Encore
- Introduction to Webpack Encore and Yarn
- Installation and configuration of the required bundle
- Optimizing assets with Webpack Encore
Introduction to Doctrine
- The Doctrine ORM and configuration of your project to access the database
- Entities and their mapping with the Symfony maker
- Migrations to manage the state of your database at anytime
- Handling relations between 2 entities
- Storing data in the database by using a controller
- Retrieving data from the database by using built-in or custom queries
Forms
- Introduction to Symfony forms
- Custom types
- Handling submitted data
- Using Symfony built-in constraints to get validated data
Conclusion
Training Materials
All attendees receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
- Windows PCs or Macs with local administrator rights
- PHP 8 or later
- The following PHP extensions installed: ctype, filter, iconv, intl, json, mbstring, openssl, pdo, pdo_sqlite, session, simplexml sodium, tokenizer, xml, xmlwriter, and xsl
- SQLite3, MariaDB, or MySQL
- Composer 2.x or later
- Symfony and Symfony CLI
- Npm or Yarn
- GitHub account for each participant, or a private repository + GIT account provided by your organization to our instructor
- Git
