Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development Table Of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Symfony
Chapter 2: Developing Our Application
Chapter 3: Adding the Business Logic and Complex Application Logic
Chapter 4: User Interaction and Email Automation
Chapter 5: Generating the Admin Area
Chapter 6: Advanced Forms and JavaScript
Chapter 7: Internationalizing our Global Positions
Chapter 8: Extending Symfony
Chapter 9: Optimizing for Performance
Chapter 10: Final Tweaks and Deployment
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Symfony
  • Exploring Symfony
    • The framework
      • The Model-View-Controller pattern
    • Taking a look at the key features
      • Forms and validation
      • Plugins
      • Internationalization and localization
      • Generators
      • Cache
      • Testing
      • Configuration files
  • Coding guidelines
    • Symfony-specific guidelines
  • Installing Symfony
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Developing Our Application
  • The milkshake shop
    • Creating the skeleton folder structure
    • Creating our database schema
    • Configuring the ORM layer
      • Configuring the database connection
    • Generating the models, forms, and filters
    • Building the database
      • Creating the application modules
    • Handling the routing
    • The application logic
      • Rendering the template
      • Adding our routing rules
      • Configuring template parameters
      • Styling the pages
    • Common installation problems
      • Web server 404 error page
      • A symfony 'Oop! An error occurred'
      • Pages and debug bar do not render correctly
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Adding the Business Logic and Complex Application Logic
  • The generated models
    • Populating the database
  • Retrieving data using the models
    • Defining the criteria
    • Hydration

• Retrieving the result set from the action
  • The template logic
    • Returned results
    • Using the DAOs
    • Displaying the results
  • Helpers
  • Paginating our menu
    • Adding the pager business logic
    • Setting a configuration option
  • Amending the action
    • Accessing the $_POST, $_GET, and $_REQUEST variables
    • Accessing the application and module configuration file
    • Building up the routing
    • Organizing a template with partials
  • Creating the milkshake page
    • Routing with an object
    • Adding the route to the template
    • Retrieving many-to-many results
    • Accessing related objects in the action
    • Accessing related objects in the templates

• Plugins
  • DbFinderPlugin
    • Finishing off the location page

• Summary

• Chapter 4: User Interaction and Email Automation
  • The signup module
  • Binding a form to a database table
    • A look at the generated base class
    • Rendering the form
    • Customizing form widgets and validators
      • Removing unneeded fields
      • Modifying the form widgets
      • Adding form validators
      • Form naming convention and setting its style
  • Submitting the form
  • Changing the global rendering of forms
  • Customizing the rendering of the form
    • Form security for the user
  • Creating a simple form
  • Automated email responses
    • Adding the mailer settings to the application
    • Creating the application logic
    • The partial email template
  • Flashing temporary values
  • Creating a plugin
  • Packaging a plugin
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Generating the Admin Area
  • How Symfony can help us
  • Initializing generator
    • Creating application and module
    • Exploring list view
      • Looking into the generated list view code
  • Customizing the admin generator
    • Customizing the edit view
  • Handling foreign keys using admin generator
    • Accessing application settings from generator.yml
    • Using partials in the generated views
  • Customizing the layout
  • Securing the application
    • Setting up credentials (permissions)
    • Handling credentials in templates
    • Tidying up the backend
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Advanced Forms and JavaScript
  • Adding JavaScript code into the Symfony project
    • JavaScript frameworks
    • Using JavaScript helpers
    • Adding JavaScript files into the header section
  • Creating more advanced admin modules
    • Installing the required plugins and libraries
    • Creating an advanced admin module
      • Adding file upload and thumbnails
    • Handling many-to-many relations
    • Adding jQuery calendar and TinyMCE widget
  • Autocompleting the search
  • Other JavaScript helpers
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Internationalizing our Global Positions
  • Internationalization and localization
    • Refactoring the schema
    • Rebuilding with test data
  • Setting and getting the culture and language
    • Preferred culture and language
  • The action
  • Adding culture to the routing
  • Localizing the template
  • Translating interface text
    • Configuring i18n for the templates
  • Dictionary files
  • Translating the interface
    • Adding the culture links
    • Translating the static text
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Extending Symfony
  • Bridging to other frameworks
    • Bridging with eZ Components
      • Configuring the component with Symfony
      • Using the component
    • Bridging with the Zend Framework
      • Extending the core classes with your own
  • Multiple inheritance
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Optimizing for Performance
  • HTTP compression
  • Caching
    • Cache settings
    • Caching globally
    • Caching page-by-page
    • Caching without the layout
    • Caching with the layout
    • Caching parts of a template
    • Dynamic cache
    • Cache storage
    • Caching dynamic pages
  • Looking at the database
    • Setting limits and columns in the criteria
    • Creating your own SQL statements
    • Limit your queries
  • Caching your queries
    • ETags
    • Less requests
      • Stylesheets
      • JavaScripts
  • Other tools to aid you
    • Firefox developer tools
    • Database tools
      • Deciding on your table types
    • Accelerators
    • memcached
    • Caching database calls
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Final Tweaks and Deployment
  • Editing the default pages
  • Disabling the application
    • Symfony on the server or not?
    • Transferring your application to the server
      • rsync
    • Symfony and rsync
  • Summary

• Index

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