SF2C1 | Getting Started with Symfony2

Object Oriented Programming (on demand)

• Classes and objects
• Properties and methods
• Constructor and destructor methods
• Class inheritance
• Attributes and methods scopes (visibility)
• Error handling with exceptions
• Namespaces

General Introduction to the Symfony Framework

• Introducing the Symfony framework and its ecosystem
• Installing the Symfony « Standard Edition Distribution »
• Discovering the Symfony project architecture (application, bundles, libraries, bundles etc.)
• Understanding the HTTP request processing workflow
• Understanding the concept of environment (development, production and testing)
• Introducing the coding and files naming conventions
• Discovering the concept of a « Bundle »

Debugging the Code

• Getting help from the « Web Debug Toolbar »
• Introspecting the recorded logs
• Profiling HTTP requests thanks to the « Web Profiler » application
• Spotting problems thanks to explicit errors and exceptions stack traces

Configuring the Application

• Comparing supported built-in configuration: XML, YAML and PHP
• Configuring the application thanks to global settings
• Configuration application’s routes and URLs
• Overriding the configuration defined by a built-in or third-party « bundle »

Generating Pages for the End User

• Introducing the Twig templates rendering engine
• Comparing Twig and raw PHP templating strategies
• Accessing global variables from Twig templates (request, session, user)
• Using tags, filters and function to generate and format contents in a Twig template
• Making templates truly extensible thanks to the template inheritance feature
• Splitting templates into small templates chunks to avoid code duplications
• Rendering a Symfony controller from within a Twig template
• Generating URLs based on the application’s routes configuration
• Rendering Symfony forms with custom Twig view helpers

Designing Controller & Analazing the Request

• Designing a controller class with its action methods
• Mapping URL patterns to Symfony controllers thanks to annotations configuration
• Generating a raw response or a response based on a Twig template
• Accessing client’s information from the Request object
• Reading and writing session data
• Reading and writing cookies’ data
• Triggering a 404 error page when the resource is not found
• Triggering an internal redirect to another controller to avoid code duplication
• Redirecting the user to another page

Interacting with the End User with Forms

• Discovering the « Form » component
• Designing and processing simple web forms
• Adding validation constraints on submitted form fields’ data
• Prototyping the form rendering thanks to Twig view helpers
• Gathering the form submitted data and processing them
• Sending the form validated and filtered data by e-mail to some recipient

Internationalizing & Localizing the User Interface

• Discovering the « Translation » component
• Changing the default user’s locale
• Defining custom abstract translation keys in Twig templates
• Generating XLIFF translation catalogues skeletons
• Translating abstract translation keys in XLIFF catalogues
• Dealing with dynamic translations including pluralized sentences