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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

The Sonata project


The frontend security is partially in place. So let's see how we can manage the user and other contents from the admin area. To do so, we need an admin dashboard with CRUD functionality, not only for users, but also for other entities created so far.

According to packagist.org, after FOSUserBundle, the most popular Symfony bundle is SonataAdminBundle. You can find more about the Sonata project at https://sonata-project.org.

The Sonata project was originally founded by Thomas Rabiax and its main aim was creating an e-commerce solution. Today, it consists of a couple of bundles that help create blogs, handle media files, backend administration, and much more. In this chapter, we will look at SonataAdminBundle and then use SonataUserBundle to integrate FOSUserBundle into the admin area.

Installing and configuring Sonata bundle

As usual, install the bundle and its dependencies and activate them all in the kernel:

$ composer require sonata-project/admin-bundle "dev-master"

When...