My Way to PHP: Day 25 of 75

Ok, just published yesterday’s post. Today, I’m starting the best practices book.

• Bundles should be able to reuse, i.e. own business logic most likely gets into an AppBundle.
• For constant values use const and not the config files
• For Doctrine use Annotations
• Use annotations from the FrameworkBundle to handle caching, routing and security in your controllers

That’s pretty neat. I didn’t know Symfony had this. In other frameworks I worked with in Python or Clojure that’s the standard way of doing it.

• Put templates in app/Resources/views/
• Define forms as PHP classes
• Use the @Security annotation for authorization
• Use hardcoded URLs for tests to check for changing URLs

Updates Goals:

• Learn Symfony2
• Learn a bit more about MySQL
• Write at least one web app using Symfony2 and its core components (templating, testing, forms, validation, security)
• Watch one video per day on average

Progress status

Done

• Read Symfony Best practices

In Progress

• Watch one video per day on average [53 of 75]