Learn how to develop high quality web applications quickly and effectively with Symfony. Our experts share their in depth knowledge and experience to make you an adept in agile web development with Symfony. OSSCube is one of the few Sensiolabs Authorized Training Company worldwide. Our trainers are authorized and certified by Symfony creators Sensiolabs. Our training materials are created by the best experts in their fields. For example, the symfony courses have been created by the symfony core team and the same goes for Doctrine. All our courses are also frequently updated to reflect the latest features of the software.
Prerequisites
You must be a PHP developer with some experience in developing applications on PHP5. If you are already developing applications on symfony that would be the best starting point for this course.
From flat file to MVC project
- understanding layers structure
- split business logic in classes
- get parameters from request
- passing variables to the view
- alternate syntax
- split projects into applications, modules, actions
- browsing a project's file structure
- decorate templates with a layout
- linking pages together
- understanding MVC
Templating with symfony
- using helpers
- build a form with helpers
- playing with templates, slots, partial and components
- configuring the view : view.yml
Working environment
- using several project environments
- understanding a symfony query with the web debug toolbar
- more information with the log files
- the configuration cascade
- the Yaml format
- Managing the cache
- using symfony command line
- symfony's exceptions
Routing and HTTP protocol
- understanding URLs
- GET and POST requests
- apache URL rewriting
- using a helper to deal with outgoing URLs
- understanding front controller
- understanding bi directional routing
- dealing with routing.yml
- forward and redirect
- use explicit URLs
- use named routes
Object Relational Abstraction
- create and manipulate business objects
- protect against SQL injection
- abstract SQL queries
- schema and SQL generation
- connecting an application to a database
- using generated getters and setters
- using generated methods to retrieve objects from the database
- translate a SQL query into object query
- using a criteria
- re-factor code from actions to the model
- from a sandbox, an archive or a package
- symfony's SVN architecture
- initialize a project, an application
- Configure the web server
- dealing with versioning tools
- updating symfony
- deploying symfony
Admin generator
- generate or init a module
- differences between scaffolding and administration
- initiating an administration
- browse the generated code
- configuring the admin generator
- modifying the list page
- modifying the edit page
- overloading the action
- using themes
- understanding the templates templates
Using the session
- storing attributes and temporary flash messages
- authenticating, logging in and out a user
- configuring and testing credentials
Tests
- validating code elements with unit tests
- lime and symfony command line
- feeding a database with test data : the fixtures
- validating a functionality : functional testing
- sfTestBrowser : how to simulate a browsing session
- validating elements with the DomCssSelector
- Automating tests
The cache
- sending the result of a query in the cache
- sending the layout in the cache
- using the cache with components and partials
- explore the cache content
