Category: Symfony

Symfony provides event-based programming through its EventDispatcher component. Any enterprise application needs event-based programming to create a highly customizable application. Events is one of the main tools for the objects to interact with each other. Without events, an object does not interact efficiently. The process of event based programming can be summarized as – An object, called Event…

In any application, objects tend to increase as the application grows. As objects increase, the dependency between the objects also increases. Object dependency needs to be handled properly for a successful application. As discussed in the Components chapter, Symfony provides an easy and efficient component, DependencyInjection to handle object dependency. A service container is a container of…

As discussed earlier, Symfony components are standalone PHP library providing a specific feature, which can be used in any PHP application. Useful new components are being introduced in each and every release of Symfony. Currently, there are 30+ high quality components in Symfony framework. Let us learn about the usage of Symfony components in this…

Symfony is basically a collection of high quality components and bundles. Components are collection of classes providing a single core functionality. For example, Cache component provides cache functionality, which can be added to any application. Components are building blocks of a Symfony application. Symfony has 30+ high quality components, which are used in many PHP framework such…

This chapter explains how to install Symfony framework on your machine. Symfony framework installation is very simple and easy. You have two methods to create applications in Symfony framework. First method is using Symfony Installer, an application to create a project in Symfony framework. Second method is composer-based installation. Let’s go through each of the…

A PHP web framework is a collection of classes, which helps to develop a web application. Symfony is an open-source MVC framework for rapidly developing modern web applications. Symfony is a full-stack web framework. It contains a set of reusable PHP components. You can use any Symfony components in applications, independently from the framework. Symfony…