SF5START | Getting Started with Symfony 5

Introduction

• Overview of the Symfony project, including license, releases, roadmap, guidelines with Symfony framework and useful components as example of doable things.
• Work environment and Symfony command line tool
• Installation of a Symfony project

First steps with Symfony

• How to handle a Request - Response flow
• Create your first web page
• Fine-tune your application routes with parameters and requirements
• Best practises 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
• Write your first test to check a status code over a web page
• Use a data provider to provide URLs to be checked

Templating with Twig

• Introduction to Twig
• Learn Twig’s basic syntax
• Use the Dot syntax helper in your templates
• Use Twig to loop over data from a controller and test some conditions to design your web page
• Use layout techniques with inheritance and template inclusions to reduce your template
• Best solutions to get help with the Symfony console and the web profiler
• Create dynamic URLs in your templates to access another web page or link an asset

Web assets with Webpack Encore

• Short introduction to Webpack Encore and Yarn
• Installation and configuration of the required bundle
• Optimize your assets with Webpack Encore

Introduction to Doctrine

• Introduction to the Doctrine ORM and configuration of your project to access the database
• Create your own entities and their mapping with the Symfony maker
• Create and apply migrations to manage the state of your database at anytime
• Handle relations between 2 entities
• Store data in the database by using a controller or a Doctrine fixture for automated tests purpose and 
• Retrieve data from the database by using built-in or custom queries

Forms

• Introduction to Symfony forms
• Create your own form with custom types
• Handle submitted data
• Use Symfony built-in constraints to get validated data