SF2C5 | Symfony2, the Key Concepts

Discovering frameworks pros and cons

• Introduction to frameworks
• Framework vs CMS
• Pros and cons of Symfony2

Symfony2 installation and architecture

• Installing a Symfony2 standard distribution
• Navigating in the Symfony2 project tree
• Discovering the components and bundles architecture of Symfony2
• Understanding the Symfony2 MVC implementation
• Finding extra community bundles on the Internet

Mastering the Symfony2 configuration

• Configuring the web server for Symfony2
• Understanding the environment configuration
• Locating the application's configuration
• Locating the bundles' configuration
• Changing database access identifiers
• Changing the URLs configuration
• Editing translations dictionnaries
• Accessing the Doctrine2 model layer
• Editing default user's locale settings
• Configuring authentication and access control policy

Symfony2 development tools

• Improving productivity with an IDE
• Using the web debug toolbar
• Collecting application's metrics thanks to the Profiler
• Analyzing recorded logs
• Tracking executed SQL statements
• Interacting with the command line tool

Integrating the best practices

• Review of RAD, DRY and KISS principles
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• Linking the project with a source code management tool (SVN / Git...)
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• Optimizing frontend performances with HTTP caching and ESI
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• Optimizing assets managements with Assetic
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• Contracting a quality insurance with automated tests
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• Insuring code quality with a continuous integration
• Conforming to coding conventions
• Finding help, where and how?

Answering to exploitation constraints

• Choosing a suitable hosting offer
• Customizing error pages
• Deploying the application to production
• Easing database migrations