
Doctrine abstracts away the SQL queries nicely. Though, sometimes using these abstractions can become costly. Let's see how to avoid running into issues when inadvertently making too many queries.
Let's display comments below the posts. We will create a great-looking timeline design using Tailwind CSS.
A high level overview of the authentication (logging in) and authorization (who can do what) features in Symfony. Gives an overview of the whole section and introduces some concepts.
User passwords need to be hashed when stored. Let's see how to do that, and by the way, how to create some user accounts in the fixtures.
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Doctrine ORM for efficient database handling
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