1. BACK-END WITH
SONATA ADMIN BUNDLE
AND SYMFONY2, OF COURSE...
Andrea Delfino
andrea.delfino@gmail.com
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2. •Developer with 10+ years experience
•Either SysAdmin (DevOps ❤)
•Actually working for Skuola.net
•I love Free Software (free as in freedom)
•Knowledge sharing (Web, LUG, ..., PUG)
@ottimo
https://github.com/andreadelfino
PUG Turin: http://torino.grusp.org
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3. THE PROBLEM
TIME
Often we have little time for developing the back-end
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4. THE PROBLEM
EXPECTATIONS
We're migrating from an CMS with a good back-end
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5. THE SOLUTION
X
phpMyAdmin
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6. ALTERNATIVE
• Homebrew
• Altri Framework
• SF2/Doctrine CRUD Generator
• AdmingeneratorGeneratorBundle
• WhiteOctoberAdminBundle
• FooSimpleAdminBundle (one-dev-bundle)
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7. OR...
SonataAdminBundle
“Admin is not only about Model; but about providing a
consistent and rich user experience for managing data.”
Thomas Rabaix
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8. SONATA PROJECT
http://sonata-project.org
• Mantainer: Thomas Rabaix (https://github.com/rande)
• Sponsor: Ekino (http://www.ekino.com)
• Obiettivo: e-commerce framework
• State: 13 bundles e some libraries
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9. FEATURES OVERVIEW
Dashboard Templating
•Base templates (field, list, filter) can be overwritten
List •Layout templates can be defined into the Service
•Automatic sort Container
•Link to associated admin (Post => User)
•Custom templates Others
•Row Action: edit, create, view, ... •Nested Admin (ie: /news/post/5/comment/list filter
•Batch Action and create comments only for the post with id=5)
•Clever row visualisation: boolean values are •Contextual Breadcrumb
represented with 'check picture' •Persistent parameters across an Admin
•Filter •Side menu option
•Pagination •Translated into 17 languages: CA, DE, EN, ES, FR, HR,
IT, JA, LB, NL, PL, PT_BR, PT_PT, RU, SK, SL and UK
Edit / Create •Built to be extended
•Inline edition •Explain command line utility
•Association management (create related model with
+ icon) Bundles (on top of)
•Group fields •SonataMediaBundle: a media manager bundle
•Sortable option •SonataNewsBundle: a news/blog bundle
•Modal window to select model (when the list can be •SonataPageBundle: a page (CMS like) bundle
important) •SonataUserBundle: integration of FOSUserBundle and
•Dynamic form on [one|many]-to-many association SonataAdminBundle
(add new element)
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10. ECOSYSTEM
Symfony Framework
Symfony Components
SonataCacheBundle SonataPageBundle
SonataBlockBundle SonataNewsBundle
SonataJQueryBundle SonataMediaBundle
KnpMenuBundle SonataUserBundle
Exporter SonataAdminBundle Symfony CMF
abstract class Admin
SonataDoctrineORMAdmin SonataDoctrineMongoDBAdmin SonataDoctrinePhpcrAdmin
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11. INSTALLATION
• vi deps && vendors install (branch/2.0 + sf2.0)
• composer (master + sf2.1)
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12. CONFIGURATION
• autoload.php + AppKernel.php
• config.yml + routing.yml
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13. MAYBE NOT EVERYONE KNOWS THAT...
In Bundle Standalone
src/ src/
Skuola/ Skuola/
UniversitaBundle/ AdminBundle/
Admin/ Admin/
VersioniBundle/ UniversitaBundle/
Admin/ VersioniBundle/
... ...
skuola.net/admin admin.skuola.net
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14. ADMIN CLASS
Class as a Service
Service Our Admin class
Entity
Admin pool Dashboard Controller
group
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15. DASHBOARD
Twitter
Quick actions Bootstrap ;)
Entities
}Group
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16. Filters
LIST VIEW
Custom fields Actions
Export
Batch actions
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17. LIST VIEW
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18. LIST VIEW
Admin class
List Mapper
Custom Template
Custom Actions
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19. LIST VIEW
Actions Route
Filters
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20. EDIT / CREATE FORM
Associated Entity
Properties
Entity Collection
(ManyToMany with
extra fields)
Help inline
CRUD Actions
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21. EDIT / CREATE FORM
Modal windows ;)
List View
Opera
Click to choose
association
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22. EDIT / CREATE FORM
Create Form
Etichette
Creating a new associated Entity
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23. EDIT / CREATE FORM
Form Mapper
Model type
Collection type
Custom visualization
Help inline
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24. MAYBE NOT EVERYONE KNOWS THAT...
Form fields template
Custom field block
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25. OTHER FEATURES
•Controller for custom and batch actions
•Lifecycle Callbacks
•Validation
•Advanced Templates customization
•Pagination
•Sidebar & Menu (via KnpMenuBundle)
•Translations (10+ languages, Italian included)
•ACL / Security Layer (SonataUserBundle + FOSUserBundle)
•CLI Utility (app/console sonata:admin:*)
http://sonata-project.org/bundles/admin/2-0/doc/index.html
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26. CONCLUSIONI
• Very powerful and flexible
• Active community (>260 fork, >50 contrib)
•Stable release nearsometimesbut still missing
for sf2.0...
• Documentation is lacking
• Unstable “master” version (for sf2.1)
Being a Good OSS Contributor - Jeremy Mikola (http://joind.in/talk/view/7216)
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27. Questions?
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28. Grazie
So long, and thanks for all the fish! ;)
@ottimo
https://github.com/andreadelfino
andrea.delfino@gmail.com
Thanks to Thomas Rabaix (@th0masr) for support and Lineke Kerckhoffs-
Willems (@the_linie) for presentation tips.
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