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PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide

By : M A Hossain Tonu
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PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide

By: M A Hossain Tonu

Overview of this book

<p>NetBeans has many features that greatly simplify PHP development, and with its several features and great flexibility, PHP developers can become overwhelmed by the IDE's options. This book provides step-by-step instructions that show you how to take control of the environment and make use of these features to make your PHP application development more efficient and productive than ever before.<br /><br />"PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide" leads you through the crucial parts of PHP programming and shows you how to use the features of NetBeans that will improve your PHP development experience, through clear and easy instructions.<br /><br />The book gets you started with the development environment and tools, and takes you through working on practical projects with a clear focus. With each chapter being mission-critical, the book is a perfect companion to boost your PHP coding productivity and gain experience with even complex projects.<br /><br />The book starts with setting up the PHP development environment and introduces exciting and useful IDE features. You'll learn how to build real life PHP projects such as Facebook like Status Updater and even User Registration, Login &amp; Logout application. Also the book will introduce you with some must know development tools such as debugging &amp; testing tools, source documenter tools, and versioning tools.<br /><br />Working with the NetBeans IDE for PHP development has its own advantages, and this book reassures the purpose. This book is full of illustrations, screenshots, and clear instructions to take your PHP development to a new level and even shows you time-saving tricks and other productivity enhancements.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
PHP Application Development with NetBeans Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Running Symfony2 console commands inside NetBeans


NetBeans IDE supports the running of Symfony2 commands. To run the commands from the IDE, choose Symfony2 | Run Command... from the project's context menu to launch the Run Symfony2 Command dialog box. In the dialog box, you may choose your desired Symfony commands and add parameters.

For example:

generate:bundle [--namespace="..."] [--dir="..."] [--bundle-name="..."] [--format="..."] [--structure]

The generate:bundle command helps you generate new bundles. By default, the command interacts with the developer to tweak the generation. Any passed option will be used as a default value for the interaction (--namespace is the only one needed if you follow the conventions):

php app/console generate:bundle --namespace=Acme/BlogBundle

Here, Acme is your identifier or company name, and BlogBundle is the bundle name suffixed with the string Bundle.

Creating a bundle

A bundle is similar to a plugin in other software, but even better. The key difference is that everything is a bundle in Symfony2, including both the core framework functionality and the code written for your application. Bundles are first-class citizens in Symfony2. This gives you the flexibility to use pre-built features packaged in third-party bundles or to distribute your own bundles. It makes it easy to pick and choose which features to enable in your application and to optimize them the way you want.

A bundle is simply a structured set of files within a directory that implements a single feature. You might create a BlogBundle, a ForumBundle, or a bundle for user management (many of these already exist as open source bundles). Each directory contains everything related to that feature, including PHP files, templates, stylesheets, JavaScript, tests, and so on. Every aspect of a feature exists in a bundle, and every feature lives in a bundle.