This document discusses building a custom ecommerce solution using Symfony: - The solution was built custom to fully integrate with an ERP system and follow the ERP's data model for flexibility. Symfony was chosen for its enterprise qualities, large community, documentation, and long term support. - While Symfony commerce solutions like Sylius existed, they were not stable enough at the time. Instead, several common bundles were used like FOSUserBundle, FOSRestBundle, and JMSSerializerBundle to develop the custom frontend. - The author has 12 years of PHP experience and finds Symfony to be enterprise-grade, flexible for frontend development, and

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AN ECOMMERCE SYMFONY CASE STUDY

2. Who am I?
‣ SIMPLE WEB SOLUTIONS CO-FOUNDER
‣ 12 YEARS WORKING WITH PHP
‣ NOT ONLY PHP BUT ALSO TRYING OTHERS
(PYTHON, SCALA, CLOJURE, ELIXIR)
George Giannoulopoulos

3. Why
Custom?
‣ REQUIREMENT: FULLY AUTOMATED INTEGRATION
WITH ERP
‣ FOLLOW ERP MODEL TO AVOID OVERHEAD
‣ DON’T NEED MUCH OF ADMIN INTERFACE
‣ MUCH MORE FLEXIBLE FRONTEND DEVELOPMENT

4. Why
Symfony?
‣ ENTERPRISEY …THE GOOD WAY
‣ SYMFONY IS A PROJECT NOT A FRAMEWORK
‣ DOCUMENTATION ROCKS!
‣ LTS SUPPORT
‣ LARGE COMMUNITY (300.000 DEVS!)
‣ 2750+ BUNDLES

5. What about
Symfony based
Commerce
solutions?
‣ SYLIUS, ELCODI
‣ SYLIUS (AS BUNDLES) WAS AN
OPTION,
‣ … BUT NOT AS STABLE AT THE TIME

6. What about
Bundles?
‣ FosUserbundle
‣ FosRestbundle
‣ JmsSerializerbundle
‣ SonataAdminbundle
‣ KnpBundleMenubundle
‣ WhiteoctoberPagerfantabundle
‣ WhiteoctoberBreadcrumbsbundle
‣ LiipImaginebundle
‣ IsometriksBundleSpambundle
‣ AntimattrGooglebundle
‣ HypeMailchimpbundle

7. Thank
You!