symfony
Simplify your professional
web development with PHP
Fabien Potencier
http://www.symfony-project.com/
http://www.sensio.com/
PHP Quebec 2007 www.symfony-project.com fabien.potencier@sensio.com www.sensio.com

Sensio
• French Web Agency, founded in 1998
– 150 people
– 30 people dedicated to Web technologies
SENSIO
Web Agency
Web
Webmarketing
Technologies
Open Source
Technologies
(Framework PHP)
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Sensio Labs
• Open-Source technologies (LAMP stack)
– Linux
– Apache
– MySQL / PostgreSQL
– PHP / Perl / Python / Ruby
• Open-Source dedicated team
• Big company customers
– Web Consulting symfony
– Audit / Training PHP Framework
– Web Development
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symfony
• PHP 5 Web Framework
• Based on 9 years of Sensio experience
• Based on well-known projets (Mojavi, Propel, Prado)
• Open-Source Licence
• Built for : MIT
– Professional Websites
– Complex needs
Bring together
– Demanding environments Entreprise World
Open-Source World
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Don’t reinvent the wheel
• Follow best practices
• MVC Pattern : Model / View / Controller
• Unit and functional test framework
• Environment and deployment support
• Security (XSS protection by default)
• Extensible (plugin system)
simplify
your life
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Develop faster
• Each line of code has a cost
– To write the line less code

– To test it
less complexity
– To maintain it 
less bugs
• Write less code 
– Architecture : controller, ORM, … more productivity

– Configuration
more time
– Autoloading
– Generators
– Helpers
• More time for business rules, edge cases, …
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Main selling points
• Documentation
• Configurability
• XSS protection Standard
• Debugging tools PHP 5
MVC
• Functional tests Routing
• Extensibility : Plugins Cache
• Admin Generator
• ORM : Propel or Doctrine
• i18n / l10n
• 1.0 maintained for a long time
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Symfony installation
• PEAR
$ pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
$ pear install symfony/symfony-1.0.0
PEAR package
Subversion
easy
Package
• SVN / symlink Sandbox
$ svn propedit svn:externals
symfony http://svn.symfony-project.com/branches/1.0
recommended
• Sandbox
$ curl -O http://www.symfony-project.com/get/sf_sandbox-1.0.0.tgz
$ tar zxpf sf_sandbox-1.0.0.tgz
fast
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Application Creation
$ mkdir ~/sfdemo
$ cd ~/sfdemo
Project

$ symfony init-project sfdemo Application(s)
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$ ./symfony init-app frontend
Module(s)

Action(s)
Composant(s)

Template
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Database
• Database configuration
# config/databases.yml
prod: Environment
propel:
support
param:
password: PAssWD
all:
propel:
class: sfPropelDatabase
param:
dsn: mysql://root:@localhost/sfdemo
• Schema definition SQL abstraction
# config/schema.yml
post:
title: { type: varchar, size: 255 }
content: { type: longvarchar }
is_published: { type: boolean }
author_id: { type: integer, foreignTable: author, foreignReference: id }
created_at: ~
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Database
• Test data
# data/fixtures/data.yml
Author:
fabien:
first_name: Fabien
last_name: Potencier
Post: 1) Creates model classes
first_post: 2) Converts schema to SQL
author_id: fabien 3) Creates tables
title: PHP Québec 4) Loads test data
$ ./symfony propel-build-all-load frontend
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Model
// lib/model/Author.php
class Author extends BaseAuthor
{
function getFullName()
{
return $this->getFirstName().' '.$this->getLastName();
}
}
$author = new Author();
$author->setFirstName('Fabien'); ORM
$author->setLastName('Potencier'); Object Relationship Mapping
$author->save();
Propel / Doctrine
$post = new Post();
$post->setAuthor($author);
$post->setPublishedOn('12:00 tomorrow');
$post->isPublished(true);
$post->save();
$posts = PostPeer::doSelect(new Criteria());
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Backend creation
• Automatic creation of an Administration Backend,
ready for production
– Lists – Filters Generated code is MVC
and customizable
– Pagination – Validation Configuration file
Controller
– Tri – CRUD Templates
$ ./symfony propel-init-admin frontend post Post
1) Creates a post module
2) Generates configuration
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Configurability
• Module level
# apps/frontend/modules/post/config/generator.yml
generator:
class: sfPropelAdminGenerator
param: Configuration
model_class: Post Framework
list: Project
display: [=title, author, created_at]
Application
filters: [title, author_id, published_on]
max_per_page: 5 Module
• Application level
# apps/frontend/config/security.yml
default:
is_secure: on
credentials: admin
LOC : 0
$ ./symfony plugin-install http://plugins.symfony-project.com/sfGuardPlugin
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Admin Generator
• List
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Admin Generator
• Edition
__toString()
widgets m2m relationship
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Extensibility
• Module extension
class postActions extends autoPostActions
{
protected function addFiltersCriteria($c) Generated
{ module
parent::addFiltersCriteria($c);
$c->add(PostPeer::IS_PUBLISHED, true);
}
}
• Template customization
_edit_* : actions, footer, form, header, messages
_list_* : footer, header, messages, td_actions, t(d|h)_stacked, t(d|h)_tabular
_filters, editSuccess, listSuccess
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Frontend Creation
• Routing
homepage:
/ param: { module: blog, action: recent } <?php echo url_for('@homepage') ?>
url: /
homepage:
/ param: { module: blog, action: list }
url: /
recent:
/recent param: { module: blog, action: recent }
url: /recent
post:
<?php echo link_to(
param: { module: blog, action: show }
$post->getTitle(),
/blog/1.html requirements:
'@post?id=’.$post->getId()
id: d+
) ?>
url: /blog/:id.html
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Functional Tests
• Navigation simulation
// test/functional/frontend/blogActionsTest.php
$browser = new sfTestBrowser();
$browser->initialize(); TDD
$browser-> Test Driven Development
get('/blog/1.html')->
isStatusCode(200)->
checkResponseElement('h1.title', '/PHP Québec/');
$ ./symfony test-functional frontend
CSS Selector
# get /
ok 1 - status code is 200
not ok 2 - response selector h1 does not match regex /PHP Québec/
# Looks like you failed 1 tests of 2
1..2
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Our first line of code
# apps/frontend/modules/blog/actions/actions.class.php
class blogActions extends sfActions
{
function executeShow()
{
$id = $this->getRequestParameter('id');
$this->post = PostPeer::retrieveByPk($id); MVC
$this->forward404Unless($this->post); Model / View / Controller
} XSS
} shortcut Secure by default
# apps/frontend/modules/post/templates/showSuccess.php
<h1 class="title"><?php echo $post->getTitle() ?></h1>
<h2>par <?php echo $post->getAuthor()->getFullName() ?></h2>
<p><?php echo $post->getHtmlContent(ESC_RAW) ?></p>
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Debugging tools
• Web Debug Toolbar
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Debugging tools
• Error messages
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Deployment
$ ./symfony test-all
functional/frontend/postActionsTest......................ok
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=2
# config/properties.ini
[production] $ ./symfony freeze
host=1.2.3.4
user=fabien
dir=/var/www/sfblog
type=rsync
$ ./symfony sync production go
PHP Quebec 2007 www.symfony-project.com fabien.potencier@sensio.com www.sensio.com

Community Plugins
• New plugins are created every week
– Doctrine : Full Doctrine ORM support
– UJS : Unobtrusive JavaScript
– PropelActAsNestedSetBehavior : Nested sets for
Propel
– SuperCache : HTML pages cache
– ControlPanel : Web management for symfony projects
– ErrorLogger : All 404 and 500 logging in a table
– Guard : Authentication and authorization features
– Feed2 : Web feeds management
– PokaYoke : Client side validation
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What’s next?
• Forge : www.symfony-forge.com
• New features for symfony 1.1 :
– More hooks for plugins
– More modularity
– Doctrine support
– Unobstrusive JavaScript support
– New form and validation framework
• Book translation
, Deutsch, Español, Français
Polski, Russian, , Italiano, …
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A Professional Web Framework
• Built from experience
• 1.0 stable, maintained with commercial support
• Growing community
– Developpers in more than 80 countries
– 100 000 visitors per month on symfony-project.com
• Open-Source Documentation
– The book (450 pages - GFDL)
– Askeet Tutorial (250 pages)
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A symfony User
• Yahoo! (USA)
– Yahoo! Bookmarks
– 20 millions users
– Web 2.0 / AJAX
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Rejoignez-nous - Join Us
• Sensio Labs recrute en France
– Des développeurs
– Des chefs de projet technique
• Le Web est l’une de vos passions ?
– Développeur : Vous avez une expérience dans le
développement de sites Web en PHP voire en
symfony. Vous développez en PHP5 objets, vous
connaissez l’AJAX.
– Chef de Projet : Vous êtes développeur et vous
souhaitez gérer des projets pour des grands comptes.
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SENSIO S.A.
26, rue Salomon de Rothschild
92 286 SURESNES cedex
FRANCE
Tél. : +33 1 40 99 80 80
Fax : +33 1 40 99 83 34
Contact
Fabien Potencier
fabien.potencier@sensio.com
http://www.sensio.com/ http://www.symfony-project.com/
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