Chapter 2. Developing Our Application

Developing an application in Symfony is easy and time-saving, and one of the best ways to demonstrate that is to create a web site. In this chapter, we begin our journey by jumping straight into development. By the end of this chapter, we will have an initial prototype, which will serve as a starting point for the other chapters.

Along the way you will be introduced to the MVC flow within Symfony where you will understand about the business and application logic, and designing the database.

In this chapter you will learn how to:

• Set up the foundations for a basic database-driven web site using the Symfony framework

• Use some of the available Symfony tasks to cut out repetition

• Create a database schema and later understand its relation to the ORM and forms

• Understand the flow of the request to the controller, action, routing, and template rendering

The milkshake shop

Our application will be designed for a fictitious milkshake shop. The functional requirements...