How to use Composer and Symfony Components in OXID eShop.

2. About me
● Web Developer since age of 15
● 28 years old
● Works @renzel.agentur, Isselburg
● living in Kleve, NRW
● loves Guitars and nerdy stuff

3. Today's session
● What is Symfony?
● How can we use Symfony in Oxid?
● How to use composer in Oxid

5. »Symfony is a set of PHP Components, a Web
Application framework, a Philosophy, and a
Community — all working together in
harmony.«*
*http://symfony.com/de/what­is­symfony

6. Full Stack Web Application
Framework
● Combines the power of Symfony components,
into a fully featured Web Framework
● Rich and 'state of the art' feature set includes:
- Full MVC Stack, Dependency Injection, Doctrine
ORM Integration, Twig Templating Engine etc.
● High quality standards and rapid development
● High performance

7. Facts & Figures
● 1.000+ Contributers¹
● 300.000+ Symfony developers¹
● 1.000.000+ monthly downloads¹
● ~21 Core Components²
● ~5.800 Symfony Bundles³
● Base for future OXID development
¹http://symfony.com/de/what-is-symfony
²http://symfony.com/blog/symfony-2-0
³https://packagist.org/packages/list.json?tag=symfony-bundle

8. + = ?

9. The Answer:
Anything you want it to be

10. Components provide answers, to
common questions
● How do I crawl the DOM?
– symfony/dom-crawler
● How do I parse a YAML file?
– symfony/yaml
● How do I validate my forms?
– symfony/validation
● How do i write a CLI app with PHP?
– symfony/console

11. » The Components implement common features
needed to develop websites. They are the
foundation of the Symfony full­stack framework,
but they can also be used standalone even if you
don't use the framework as they don't have any
mandatory dependencies. «*
* http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/index.html

12. Using in
● Use Symfony Components to handle common
tasks like Config parsing, form validation etc.
● Wrap common business logic in packages, to
keep them reusable
● Use OXID Modules to wrap your packages

13. Every symphony starts with it's composition.

14. Introducing:
● Composer is a dependency manager for PHP applications
● Resolves dependencies and keeps them as up to date as
you need them
● Used by symfony to install components and bundles
● Provides access to thousands of PHP libraries,
distrubuted via the packagist package repository
● Comes with an easy to use autoloader

15. chl@loki~$gitclonegit@github.com:OXID-eSales/oxideshop_ce.git
chl@loki~/oxideshop_ce/source$ll
insgesamt184
drwxr-xr-x 2chlchl 4096Apr 914:56admin/
drwxr-xr-x 7chlchl 4096Apr 914:56application/
drwxr-xr-x 2chlchl 4096Apr 914:56bin/
-rw-r--r-- 1chlchl 1635Apr 914:56bootstrap.php
-rw-r--r-- 1chlchl 1817Apr 914:56composer.json
-rw-r--r-- 1chlchl55650Apr 914:56composer.lock
-rw-r--r-- 1chlchl 8173Apr 914:56config.inc.php
...
chl@loki~/oxideshop_ce/source$composer.pharrequireacirtautas/oxid-module-internals:0.3.1
./composer.jsonhasbeenupdated
Loadingcomposerrepositorieswithpackageinformation
Updatingdependencies(includingrequire-dev)
-Installingcomposer/installers(v1.0.21)
Downloading:100%
-Installingacirtautas/oxid-module-internals(v0.3.1)
Downloading:100%

16. chl@loki~/oxideshop_ce/source/modules/oxid-module-internals$ll
insgesamt48
-rw-r--r--1chlchl16700Okt1522:28ac_module_internals.png
-rw-r--r--1chlchl 317Okt1522:28composer.json
drwxr-xr-x3chlchl 4096Okt1522:28controllers/
drwxr-xr-x2chlchl 4096Okt1522:28core/
-rw-r--r--1chlchl 521Okt1522:28menu.xml
-rw-r--r--1chlchl 1586Okt1522:28metadata.php
-rw-r--r--1chlchl 517Okt1522:28README.md
drwxr-xr-x3chlchl 4096Okt1522:28views/
chl@loki~/oxideshop_ce/source$catcomposer.json
{
...
"require":{
"acirtautas/oxid-module-internals":"0.3.1"
}
}

17. Using composer's autoloader in
OXID
chl@loki~/oxideshop_ce/source$catmodules/functions.php
<?php
/**
*Addcustomfunctionshere.
*/
require_once(__DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php');
That's it. Now, just start coding!

18. Further Resources:
● Everything Symfony: http://symfony.com
● Composer Package Repository:
https://packagist.org
● Oxid Modules on Packagist:
● https://packagist.org/packages/list.json?type=oxid-m

19. Thank you for listening!
Questions?