Symfony User Group Belgium Introduction
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This document outlines an agenda for a Symfony User Group Belgium meeting. It introduces the presenters Jean-Christophe Cuvelier and Eric Rodriguez. It provides a brief history of Symfony and explains that Symfony is both a set of reusable PHP components and a full-stack web framework. It highlights some of Symfony's advantages like being very fast to prototype with and encouraging best practices. The document also discusses how Symfony is extensible through bundles and Composer and recommends some useful bundles. It provides instructions on installing Symfony and points to documentation resources.
Symfony User Group Belgium Introduction
- 1. Symfony User Group Belgium
- 2. Agenda Who are we? Why??? Who are you! Introduction to Symfony2 Whats next
- 3. Me, myself and I Jean-Christophe Cuvelier Partner @ Morris & Chapman Belgium Founder @ Pictawall.com Web entrepreneur Begun with a Commodore 64 Creative PHP developer be.linkedin.com/in/totophe github.com/totophe @totophe
- 4. The other Me Eric Rodriguez CTO @ Auctelia.com Founder @ Data.be @ Pictawall.com Web entrepreneur Multi-Language: PHP, Java/Groovy/Grails, .Net, be.linkedin.com/in/erodriguez github.com/wavyx @wavyx
- 5. Symfony 2
- 6. A little bit of history symfony 1.0 (2007) : Lets_glue_this_thing symfony 1.2 (2008) : Ok, component symfony 1.4 (2009) : To the infinity and beyond! Symfony 2.0 (2011) : Those arent the droids youre looking for Symfony 2.1 (2012) : Out of beta Symfony 2.2 (2013) : Natural evolution Symfony 2.3 (2013) : Lets Talk LTS
- 7. What is Symfony? Yeah, right, but what is Symfony? Symfony2 is a reusable set of standalone, decoupled, and cohesive PHP components that solve common web development problems. Based on these components, Symfony2 is also a full-stack web framework. http://fabien.potencier.org/article/49/what-is-symfony2
- 8. Wait What? Symfony components Full PHP framework
- 10. Who use the components Drupal 8 Doctrine Propel PHPUnit Silex Laravel {{ you.name.it }}
- 11. Why using Symfony? Very fast prototyping Easy stack Fast PHP 5.3 Encourage best practices State of the art php dev Flexible and Extensible Stable and established Testable Professional support available
- 12. Extensible Bundles Bundles Everything is structured in Bundles Core bundles KPN Bundles Your own bundles
- 13. Extensible Composer Composer Composer: Dependency Manager for PHP Easy definitions CLI interface Work with custom repositories Packagist: Main repository for Composer
- 15. Install Symfony curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php php composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition /path/to/webroot/Symfony 2.3.*
- 16. Symfony Documentation The Book: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/index.html Components explained: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/index.html Google is your friend
- 17. Symfony community Stack Overflow: A lot of information for Symfony Mailing lists: http://symfony.com/mailing-lists Forum: http://forum.symfony-project.org/ IRC: Freenode - channel #symfony Symfony Live: http://live.symfony.com/
- 18. Live Demo?
- 19. Thank you! jcc@pictawall.com - @totophe be.linkedin.com/in/totophe - github.com/totophe http://www.meetup.com/Symfony-User-GroupBelgium/
- 20. Whats next More presentations Bundles Hands-on Symfony (beginner/advanced) Common project/bundle Contribute to Sf .