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Mastering Symfony

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Mastering Symfony

Overview of this book

In this book, you will learn some lesser known aspects of development with Symfony, and you will see how to use Symfony as a framework to create reliable and effective applications. You might have developed some impressive PHP libraries in other projects, but what is the point when your library is tied to one particular project? With Symfony, you can turn your code into a service and reuse it in other projects. This book starts with Symfony concepts such as bundles, routing, twig, doctrine, and more, taking you through the request/response life cycle. You will then proceed to set up development, test, and deployment environments in AWS. Then you will create reliable projects using Behat and Mink, and design business logic, cover authentication, and authorization steps in a security checking process. You will be walked through concepts such as DependencyInjection, service containers, and services, and go through steps to create customized commands for Symfony's console. Finally, the book covers performance optimization and the use of Varnish and Memcached in our project, and you are treated with the creation of database agnostic bundles and best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Symfony
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Index

Creating commands for tasks


One way to create tasks in our project is to log in, push the add new task button, and fill in the entries here. Wouldn't it be nice if we could do the same from the command line? If we are allowed to see the command line for a live project, this means that we don't need to deal with the hassle of authentication and authorization. So we can get to the point quickly.

To begin with, create a new Command folder in AppBundle and add the following class to it:

File source: // src/AppBundle/Command/TaskCommand.php

namespace CoreBundle\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Command\ContainerAwareCommand;

class TaskCommand extends ContainerAwareCommand
{
    protected function configure()  { }
    protected function execute(
           InputInterface $input, 
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