Introduction
- Introduction
- About Symfony
- Tools overview
- Full source code
Work environment setup & overview
- Setting up Vagrant on Windows
- Setting up Vagrant on Ubuntu
- Setting up Vagrant on MacOS
- IMPORTANT! Vagrant problems and FAQ
- Running Vagrant and creating a new Symfony 4 project
- IDE/Editor and tools overview and recommendations
- Symfony project structure overview
Service Container
- About Service Container
- Autowiring, Autoconfiguring services
- Public, private services, service aliases
- Service tags
- Manual service wiring, parameter binding
Controllers, Routes, Views
- About controllers
- About routing
- Introduction to views (Twig)
- Twig filters & custom Twig extensions
- Custom error pages using Twig
- Global variables in Twig
- Handling assets (JavaScript, CSS) using Symfony Encore (and Webpack)
- Installing Bootstrap 4 and compiling assets using Encore (Webpack)
Introduction to Databases (Doctrine2 ORM)
- Doctrine introduction
- Creating first Entity
- Creating a database migration
- Basics of doctrine repository
- Creating fixtures (database seeding)
- Creating a form and handling form submission
- Repository find methods and Twig include
- Repository findBy, form validation, handling Entity changes
- Deleting an Entity and flash messages
- Doctrine internals (Entity, EntityManager, Unit of Work, Identity Map)
Securing the application
- Security concepts
- Security component config and HTTP Basic login
- Creating User entity
- User Entity fixtures
- Login form part 1
- Login form part 2
- Adding validation to User entity
- User registration form
- User registration controller
- Assigning user to MicroPost (ManyToOne & OneToMany)
- Fixtures for relations (using references in fixtures)
- Verifying user permissions in Twig (is_granted)
- Adding randomness to fixtures
- Security Voters introduction
- Restricting access to edit or delete a micro post using SecurityVoter
- Securing controller actions and templates using Security Voter
- Adding an Admin User with all permissions
- Security role hierarchy
- Restricting adding new posts to registered users (many ways of doing that)
Doctrine advanced (following functionality)
- Lazy loading, proxy classes, repository find* methods criteria
- Doctrine Lifecycle Callbacks
- ManyToMany self-referencing relation (following/followers)
- Fetching collections lazily in templates
- Follow/Unfollow functionality (controller, adding Entities to Collections)
- Follow/Unfollow functionality (security, verifying uniqueness)
- Doctrine QueryBuilder - creating queries in OOP manner
- ArrayCollection vs PersistentCollection vs Collection
- Creating custom query to fetch users with more than 5 posts
- More on Doctrine Collections (from the database perspective)
Doctrine advanced Part 2 (likes functionality & user notifications)
- Section introduction
- ManyToMany relationship for liked posts
- Likes controller
- Implementing like functionality through XHR requests (including JavaScript)
- Notifications introduction
- Doctrine Table Inheritance - base Notification Entity
- NotificationRepository - fetching notifications unseen by user
- Unseen notification badge (Twig + JavaScript)
- Doctrine EventSubscriber - saving a notification as a reaction to other events
- Unseen notification list
- Marking notifications as being read (Doctrine Query Builder UPDATE queries)
Sending e-mails and Event Dispatcher
- Introduction to EventDispatcher
- Dispatching an event when user registers
- EventSubscriber - listening to user register event
- UPDATE: Missing code on next lecture
- Sending e-mail after user registers using Swift Mailer
- E-mail spooling
- Creating a Mailer class to handle e-mail sending (and generation using Twig)
- Account confirmation (using secure token, confirmation link on e-mail)
Translations and internationalization
- Installing and configuring translation component
- Using trans Twig filter to translate strings and validation messages translation
- Translation strings with variables (translating confirmation e-mail with links)
- Translation pluralization (different translation depending on variable)
Sessions (and Translations used with EventSubscriber)
- Introduction to sessions
- Storing user sessions in database
- Change: Event Changes in Symfony Version >= 4.3
