Introduction to Symfony2: Getting Ready for D8

Course Description

This comprehensive introduction to Symfony2 will help experienced and new PHP developers understand the power and flexibility of Drupal 8's new development framework. With hands on exercises throughout the day-long training, participants will learn basic Symfony2 concepts, build simple applications, and explore how Symfony2 is used in Drupal 8.

Learning Objectives

Participants will leave class with a working knowledge of the Symfony2 framework and an introduction to Drupal 8. Topic slides with graphical representations of the material will be expanded to help students understand content areas.

Syllabus

Class begins at 9am, lunch is at 11:45, class ends at 5.

Topic areas are as follows:

Prologue

Object Oriented Recap
Framework or CMS?
Zend vs. Symfony2

Framework and Tools

Standard Edition Install
Architecture
HTTP requests
Environment
Coding standards

Debugging

Debug toolbar
Logs
Profiler
Exception traces

Configuring the application

Configuration
Supported formats: XML, YAML and PHP
Global config
URIs global config
Overriding at the bundle level

Generating pages

Templates
Twig template engine syntax
Twig and PHP
Template inheritance
Template and Action inclusion
Defining and including slots
Generating URIs and view helpers

Actions and the end user request

Controller classes and action methods
Mapping controllers using routing
Raw response or template response
Reading data from the user’s request
Reading and writing session data
Cookies
Multiple config files via inclusion, overrides
Triggering a 404 error page
Redirecting

Interacting with a relational database

Introduction to PDO
Getting a MySQL connection
Executing a SQL query
Securing SQL queries
Factoring business logic into model classes

Interacting with forms

The form framework
Basic forms
Validation rules
Prototyping form rendering with Twig
Retrieving validated input

Review and Recap

Symfony2 and Drupal 8

Components
Community

Symfony2 Resources

Who will gain the most from this course?

Drupal developers who have not begun to learn Symfony2 or prepare for changes in Drupal 8 development. Experienced PHP developers and developers who are new to PHP or moving from .NET or other platforms.

Prerequisites for this course

Working knowledge of PHP or other coding systems. Drupal module development experience will be helpful. Local dev environment and text editor. Netbeans or other equivalent IDE helpful.

Students must bring their own wifi enabled laptops with root access to class. No computers will be provided.