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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

MopaBootstrapBundle


There are a couple bundles that integrate Bootstrap into Symfony projects. MopaBootstrapBundle is one of the popular and stable bundles available. In this section, we will see how to install and configure this bundle in our project.

To process styles, I'm going to use Less. It is a CSS preprocessor that adds loads of functionality to styles. So, before installing MopaBootstrapBundle, make sure that you have familiarized yourself with Less and installed the latest version of it already:

$ npm install -g less

Check your installation via the following command:

$ lessc -v
lessc 2.6.1 (Less Compiler) [JavaScript]

Now install the bootstrap bundle and its dependencies via composer:

//composer.json
{
    "require": {
        "mopa/bootstrap-bundle": "dev-master",
        "twbs/bootstrap": "dev-master",
        
        "knplabs/knp-paginator-bundle": "dev-master"

   }
}

$ sudo
 composer install

Note

At the time of writing this chapter, the dev-master version of the preceding packages...