Complete Symfony Bootcamp: Learn to Build Modern PHP Apps

Set up our environment on Windows using chocolatey, install PHP, Composer, Symfony CLI, and MySQL, verify each installation, and prepare a ready-to-create first Symfony project.

Set up VS Code on Windows for Symfony development by installing Docker and PHP and Symfony extensions, plus helpers, and enable Twig and HTML snippets for a streamlined workflow.

Learn to create a first Symfony project with the CLI or composer, verify setup, and explore the typical structure—bin, config, public, src, var, and vendor—plus running a local server.

Discover how controllers coordinate routes in the MVC pattern, keep business logic in services, and define routes with annotations or PHP 8 attributes in Symfony.

Define and use route parameters in Symfony to create dynamic URLs that pass values to controllers, with optional defaults and get-request restrictions.

Render web pages in Symfony using Twig templates, pass data from controllers to views, display variables with Twig syntax, and apply conditional logic and debugging in templates.

Learn to build modular Symfony pages with Twig by extending a base layout, overriding blocks, and passing data from controllers into templates using global variables.

Explore how Doctrine ORM in Symfony simplifies database interactions with PHP objects, enabling CRUD operations, configuring MySQL connections, and using the Symfony console for database setup.

Create blog and author entities with Symfony and Doctrine ORM, define a one to many relationship, and generate and run migrations via the CLI to update the database.

Explore doctrine relationships in Symfony by mapping one-to-many, many-to-one, one-to-one, and many-to-many connections, using foreign keys and pivot tables.

Install and configure doctrine fixtures bundle to populate your database with dummy data, create author and blog post fixtures, and load them with a single doctrine fixtures load command.

Learn how to fetch database records in Symfony using Doctrine repositories and the entity manager, exploring findAll, findBy, findOneBy, and count for blog posts and authors.

Explore how to manage CSS, JavaScript, and images in a Symfony project with Webpack Encore. Learn asset configuration, building, watching, and integrating assets into templates.

Learn to integrate Tailwind css into a Symfony app by configuring postcss and webpack, initializing Tailwind and its config, updating content paths, and enabling dev with watch mode.

Learn how to add and display images in a Symfony project by placing images in the assets/images folder, configuring webpack, and referencing them with the assets function.

Learn to display blog posts in a Symfony frontend by reading posts from the database via a block repository, wiring index and show routes, and rendering with Twig.

Create blog posts using Symfony forms by building a form type, mapping inputs to the blog entity, handling requests, and enabling image uploads and the publish date.

Implement delete functionality for blog posts by adding a delete button, routing to a controller, removing via the repository and entity manager, and redirecting to the blog index.