SFSYLIUS | Create an e-commerce shop with Symfony and Sylius

Discovery of Symfony

• How to handle the HTTP request - response workflow
• Routing
• Best practices for your controllers and their capabilities
• Bundles and Maker Bundle

Twig

• Introduction to Twig
• Pass a context to your templates from your controllers
• Use layout techniques with inheritance and template inclusions to reduce the size of your templates
• Direct templates overriding
• Good solutions to find help for your templates through the Symfony console or the web profiler

Exercises

• Composer create-project
• Creation of a controller + custom route and a view (using also path())

Database

• Introduction to Doctrine
• Establish and manage relationships between 2 entities
• Store records in the database using a controller.
• Retrieve records from the database using standard or custom queries (repositories)
• Talk about different mapping files (Sylius doesn't use annotations)
• Schema Update vs Migration
• Introduction to fixtures

DIC

• Introduction to Dependency Injection and Symfony Services
• Use the best method to determine available services
• Use "autowiring" to inject dependencies into a constructor, setter, or attribute
• Check the configuration of your services
• Understand the boundary between service parameters and environment variables
• decoration, tag, compiler pass
• Exercise : TBD
• Entity, repository, repository as a service, request from controller

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
• Retrieve data from the database by using built-in or custom queries

Introduction to Sylius

• Sylius architecture overview
• Technical foundations
• Show some code how Sylius is architectured (reminder of the first day : services, entities, controllers)
• Models
• Exercice : Installer Sylius
• Demo Sylius
• schema:update
• fixtures:load

Produit

• Presentation of a Sylius product
• Creation of the first Sylius product
• Add a feature to a Sylius product (color)
• Create and apply migrations to manage the state of your database
• Taxonomy
• Exercice : Same as below

Catalog

• Product lists
• Listing Controllers 
• Paginating
• Filtering
• Exercise: Filter the list of products, by the added attribute

Tests

• Introduction to functional testing (must be related with the Sylius part, phpspec, Behat)
• Installation and presentation of the "PHPUnit" tool to run your automated tests
• Write your first test to check a status code for a given web page
• Create a "data provider" to provide URLs to be parsed sequentially in a test
• How Sylius do ? 
• Theory of testing
• TDD and BDD overview
• PHP SPEC ?

Variant

• Variants and options
• Associations and reviews

Cart

• Order structure and workflow
• State machine and its usage within Sylius
• Checkout process
• Payment 
• Shipping

Security

• Introduction to authentication and authorization in a Symfony project
• Form Login
• Customer Entity
• User Provider
• Check the roles of your users to give them access to certain application resources
• Create custom Voter to handle rare situations that require special authentication in PHP
• Admin & customers

Store configuration

• Currencies
• Locales
• Zones
• Payment & Shipment methods

Promotions & Taxes

• Promotion structure
• Coupons
• Taxes structure
• Set up 20% VAT on certain products
• Edit product view to show a custom ribbon if there is a promotion/coupon
• Exercise : TBD

Extending Sylius

• Working with resources
• Controller, route, factory
• Introduction to Symfony Forms
• Create your forms with custom configurations
• Extract and manage data from your forms
• Configure native constraints to validate data coming from the user
• Creation of manageable resource (color card)
• Event Dispatcher
• Sylius template events
• Emails management
• API
• Continue with the admin: Channels