Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

• 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