symfony Simplify your professional web development with PHP

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symfonySimplify your professionalweb
development with PHP

• Francois Zaninotto
• http//www.symfony-project.com/
• http//www.sensio.com/

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Sensio

• French Web Agency, founded in 1998
• 150 people
• 30 people dedicated to Web technologies

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Sensio Labs

• Big company customers
• Web Consulting
• Audit / Training
• Web Development
• Open-Source technologies (LAMP stack)
• Linux
• Apache
• MySQL / PostgreSQL
• PHP / Perl / Python / Ruby
• Open-Source dedicated team

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symfony

• PHP 5 Web Framework
• Based on 9 years of Sensio experience
• Based on well-known projets (Mojavi, Propel,
  Prado)
• Open-Source
• Built for
• Professional Websites
• Complex needs
• Demanding environments

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Dont reinvent the wheel

• Follow best practices
• MVC Pattern Model / View / Controller
• Unit and functional test framework
• Environment and deployment support
• Security (XSS protection by default)
• Extensible (plugin system)

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Develop faster

• Each line of code has a cost
• To write the line
• To test it
• To maintain it
• Write less code
• Architecture controller, ORM,
• Configuration
• Autoloading
• Generators
• Helpers
• More time for business rules, edge cases,

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Main selling points

• Documentation
• Configurability
• XSS protection
• Debugging tools
• Functional tests
• Extensibility Plugins
• Admin Generator
• ORM Propel or Doctrine
• i18n / l10n
• 1.0 maintained for a long time

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Symfony installation

• PEAR
• pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
  
• pear install symfony/symfony-1.0.0
• SVN / symlink
• svn propedit svnexternals
• symfony http//svn.symfony-project.com/branches/
  1.0
• Sandbox
• curl -O http//www.symfony-project.com/get/sf_
  sandbox-1.0.0.tgz
• tar zxpf sf_sandbox-1.0.0.tgz

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Application Creation

• mkdir /sfdemo
• cd /sfdemo
• symfony init-project sfdemo
• ./symfony init-app frontend

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Database

• Database connection
• config/databases.yml
• prod
• propel
• param
• password PAssWD
• all
• propel
• class sfPropelDatabase
• param
• dsn mysql//root_at_localhost/sfdem
  o
• Schema definition
• config/schema.yml
• post
• title type varchar, size 255
• content type longvarchar
• is_published type boolean
• author_id type integer, foreignTable
  author, foreignReference id
• created_at

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Database

• Test data
• data/fixtures/data.yml
• Author
• fabien
• first_name Fabien
• last_name Potencier
• Post
• first_post
• author_id fabien
• title Xtech 2007
• ./symfony propel-build-all-load frontend

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Model

• // lib/model/Author.php
• class Author extends BaseAuthor
• function getFullName()
• return this-getFirstName().'
  '.this-getLastName()
• author new Author()
• author-setFirstName('Fabien')
• author-setLastName('Potencier')
• author-save()
• post new Post()
• post-setAuthor(author)
• post-setPublishedOn('1200 tomorrow')
• post-isPublished(true)
• post-save()

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Backend creation

• Automatic creation of an Administration Backend,
  ready for production
• Lists
• Pagination
• Sorting
• ./symfony propel-init-admin frontend post Post

• Filters
• Validation
• CRUD

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Configurability

• Module level
• apps/frontend/modules/post/config/generator.
  yml
• generator
• class sfPropelAdminGenerator
• param
• model_class Post
• list
• display title, author, created_at
• filters title, author_id,
  published_on
• max_per_page 5
• Application level
• apps/frontend/config/security.yml
• default
• is_secure on
• credentials admin
• ./symfony plugin-install http//plugins.symfony-
  project.com/sfGuardPlugin

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Admin Generator

• List

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Admin Generator

• Edition

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Extensibility

• Module extension
• class postActions extends autoPostActions
• protected function addFiltersCriteria(c)
• parentaddFiltersCriteria(c)
• c-add(PostPeerIS_PUBLISHED, true)
• Template customization

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Frontend Creation

• Routing

homepage param module blog, action recent
url /

homepage param module blog, action list
url / recent param module blog,
action recent url /recent
post param module blog, action show
requirements id \d url /blog/id.html
getTitle(),
'_at_post?id.post-getId() ) ?
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Functional Tests

• Navigation simulation
• // test/functional/frontend/blogActionsTest.ph
  p
• browser new sfTestBrowser()
• browser-initialize()
• browser-
• get('/blog/1.html')-
• isStatusCode(200)-
• checkResponseElement('h1.title', '/XTech
  2007/')
• ./symfony test-functional frontend
• get /
• ok 1 - status code is 200
• not ok 2 - response selector h1 does not match
  regex /XTech 2007/
• Looks like you failed 1 tests of 2
• 1..2

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Our first line of code

• apps/frontend/modules/blog/actions/actions.class
  .php
• class blogActions extends sfActions
• function executeShow()
• id this-getRequestParameter('id')
• this-post PostPeerretrieveByPk(id)
• this-forward404Unless(this-post)
• apps/frontend/modules/post/templates/showSuccess
  .php
• getTitle()
  ?
• par getAuthor()-getFullName
  () ?
• getHtmlContent(ESC_RAW)
  ?

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Debugging tools

• Web Debug Toolbar

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Debugging tools

• Error messages

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Deployment

• ./symfony test-all
• functional/frontend/postActionsTest...............
  .......ok
• All tests successful.
• Files1, Tests2
• config/properties.ini
• production
• host1.2.3.4
• userfabien
• dir/var/www/sfblog
• typersync
• ./symfony sync production go

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Community Plugins

• New plugins are created every week
• Doctrine Full Doctrine ORM support
• UJS Unobtrusive JavaScript
• PropelActAsNestedSetBehavior Nested sets for
  Propel
• SuperCache HTML pages cache
• ControlPanel Web management for symfony
  projects
• ErrorLogger All 404 and 500 logging in a table
• Guard Authentication and authorization features
• Feed2 Web feeds management
• PokaYoke Client side validation

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Whats next?

• Forge www.symfony-forge.com
• New features for symfony 1.1
• More hooks for plugins
• More modularity
• Doctrine support
• Unobstrusive JavaScript support
• New form and validation framework
• Book translation

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A Professional Web Framework

• Built from experience
• 1.0 stable, maintained with commercial support
• Growing community
• Developpers in more than 80 countries
• 100 000 visitors per month on symfony-project.com
  
• Open-Source Documentation
• The book (450 pages - GFDL)
• Askeet Tutorial (250 pages)

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symfony Users

• Yahoo! (USA)
• Yahoo! Bookmarks
• 20 millions users
• Web 2.0 / AJAX

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Rejoignez-nous - Join Us

• Sensio Labs recrute en France
• Des développeurs
• Des chefs de projet technique
• Le Web est lune de vos passions ?
• Développeur Vous avez une expérience dans le
  développement de sites Web en PHP voire en
  symfony. Vous développez en PHP5 objets, vous
  connaissez lAJAX.
• Chef de Projet Vous êtes développeur et vous
  souhaitez gérer des projets pour des grands
  comptes.

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• SENSIO S.A.
• 26, rue Salomon de Rothschild
• 92 286 SURESNES cedex
• FRANCE
• Tél. [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Contact
• Fabien Potencier
• fabien.potencier_at_sensio.com
• http//www.sensio.com/
  http//www.symfony-project.com/