Symfony 6.2.7 - Build a simple Blog website

About the project

To learn Symfony was made CRUD with Post / articles.

with similar struture or same idea of:

CodeIgniter 4 - Build Your First Application

on my repo.

Image:

Docs:

https://symfony.com/doc/current/

Official Packages installed on the project:

Install simple locally ( this way was used)

minimal instalation:

    composer create-project symfony/skeleton ./

Or add folder struture and other packages for a webapp

packages like doctrine, twig, form, etc.

    composer require webapp

add .htaccess file to public if using Apache server

    composer require symfony/apache-pack

info: https://symfony.com/doc/current/setup/web_server_configuration.html#adding-rewrite-rules-for-apache

Routes attributes base (Native)

    composer require annotations

setup twig + debug toolbar

    composer require profiler

The Dump Twig Utilities

   composer require --dev symfony/debug-bundle

linking to css, js and image assets

    composer require symfony/asset

CSRF token - forms ( for when execute POST, DELETE, PUT or PATCH http methods )

    composer require symfony/security-csrf

Allow http method over ( to use DELETE, PUT or PATCH)

in public/index.php:

    return function (array $context) {
        #https://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/configuration/framework.html#http-method-override
        Request::enableHttpMethodParameterOverride(); // <-- add this line
        return new Kernel($context['APP_ENV'], (bool) $context['APP_DEBUG']);
    };

DB ORM Doctrine and code generator Maker ( to create controllers, entities and repo )

    composer require symfony/orm-pack

    composer require --dev symfony/maker-bundle

Validation package

    composer require symfony/validator

return json: add serializer pack

It is needed this pack because without it, will return empty objects. Since what you fetch is Entity base object, not stand object ( stdclass). This only need if you are using ORM like Doctrine base entity. If you are using from a Query build, may not be needed.

    composer require symfony/serializer-pack

Editor and Recommend extensions

• Editor: VS Code (By Microsoft)

• PHP Intelephense (By Ben Mewburn)

• PHP Namespace Resolver (By Mehedi Hassan)

• PHP Awesome Snippets (By HakCorp)

• Twig Pack (by Bajdzis)

• To better developement it is taked advantages of this two wonderfull vscode extensions:

  • Docker (By Microsoft): to manage docker containers in vs code
  • Dev Containers (By Microsoft): to use vscode inside of the container.

Setup (using docker without compose)

php image: read the Dockerfile

mysql image in terminal:

docker run --name db_sf \
     -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=[your pwd] \
     -e MYSQL_DATABASE=sf6 \
     -e MYSQL_USER=[youur user] \
     -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=[your password] \
     -dp 3306:3306 mysql;