Symfony

Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components and a PHP framework for web projects. It provides a structure around which developers can build a wide variety of applications, from simple websites to complex web applications. Symfony is known for its speed, flexibility, reusable components, and its ability to integrate with other vendor libraries.

Symfony versions

The template now support the following versions of Symfony: >=6.2

May works with other versions, but not tested.

Symfony installation

To use this template, you need to install Symfony first. You can do it by following the official documentation

With composer

dcmd toolbox start # in your project root folder
composer create-project symfony/skeleton .

Get the template

At root of your project (where the public folder is located), run the following command:

dcmd template get symfony

Configure the template

• Create and configure the environnement file by copying the .env.example file to .env
• Set the name of your project in the docker-compose.yml file
• Set the right name for your virtual host in .docker/etc/apache/httpd-vhosts.conf

More information here : project configuration

Initialize the project

At root of your project (where the public folder is located), run the following command:

dcmd up

To use symfony as a webapp:

dcmd composer require webapp
dcmd composer require symfony/apache-pack

Setup the environment

Setup Symfony environment files, and your settings for the right database credentials and other settings.

Edit the generated .env file and set the DATABASE_URL variable to mysql://user:user@db:3306/default (if you're using the default database configuration)

Default database credentials

Information	default value
host	db
port	3306
name	default
username	user
password	user

Website URL

You're good to go! You can now access your project at : http://${PROJECT_NAME}.dev.local

Installing Symfony console CLI (optional)

To install it, run the following command:

dcmd composer require symfony/console

Then you can run the Symfony console:

dcmd console [args]