The Askeet Tutorial

The Askeet Tutorial symfony 1.0 This PDF is brought to you by License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License Version: askeet-1.0-en-2010-05-24Table of Contents ii Table of Contents Day 1: starting up a project .............................................................................. 9 The challenge............................................................................................................. 9 The project................................................................................................................. 9 What for today ......................................................................................................... 10 Symfony installation ................................................................................................ 10 Project Setup ........................................................................................................... 11 Web service setup.................................................................................................... 11 Web server configuration ................................................................................................... 11 Declare the domain name 12 Test the new configuration................................................................................................. 12 IIS ............................................................................................................................ 13 Subversion ............................................................................................................... 13 See you Tomorrow 15 Day 2: setting up a data model ....................................................................... 17 Previously on symfony ............................................................................................. 17 The project unveiled ................................................................................................ 17 Where to start? ........................................................................................................ 18 Data Model .............................................................................................................. 18 Relational model................................................................................................................. 18 schema.xml....................................................................................................................... 19 Object model build ............................................................................................................. 22 The database............................................................................................................ 22 Connection.......................................................................................................................... 22 Build ................................................................................................................................... 23 Test data access via a CRUD ................................................................................... 23 See you Tomorrow................................................................................................... 25 Day 3: dive into the MVC architecture ........................................................... 26 Previously on symfony ............................................................................................. 26 The MVC model ....................................................................................................... 26 Change the layout.................................................................................................... 27 A few words about environments ............................................................................ 28 Redefine the default homepage............................................................................... 29 Define test data........................................................................................................ 29 Create a batch to populate the database................................................................. 31 Batch skeleton .................................................................................................................... 31 Data import......................................................................................................................... 32 Launch the batch................................................................................................................ 32 Accessing the data in the model.............................................................................. 33 Modify the question/list template 34 Cleanup 35 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............................................................................................... 41 Modify the model, part II......................................................................................... 42 Add a field to theUser object model ................................................................................. 42 Modify thesave() method of theInterest object......................................................... 42 Secure the updating request with a transaction ................................................................ 43 Change the template .......................................................................................................... 44 Test the validity of the modification................................................................................... 45 Same for the answers .............................................................................................. 45 Routing .................................................................................................................... 47 Create an alternate version of the title .............................................................................. 47 Custom class....................................................................................................................... 48 Change the links to theshow action .................................................................................. 49 Changing the routing rules ................................................................................................ 49 See you Tomorrow................................................................................................... 50 Day 5: forms and pager................................................................................... 51 Previously on symfony ............................................................................................. 51 Login form ............................................................................................................... 51 Create theuser/login action.......................................................................................... 52 Create theloginSuccess.php template......................................................................... 52 Handle the login form submission...................................................................................... 53 Grant privileges.................................................................................................................. 54 Add theuser/logout action ............................................................................................ 54 Update the layout 55 Question pager ........................................................................................................ 55 Modify thequestion/list action ................................................................................... 55 Use a custom parameter .................................................................................................... 56listSuccess.php template........................................................................... 56 Add page navigation........................................................................................................... 57 Add a routing rule for the subsequent pages ..................................................................... 58 Refactoring .............................................................................................................. 58 Model.................................................................................................................................. 58 Templates ........................................................................................................................... 59 See you Tomorrow................................................................................................... 59 Day 6: security and form validation................................................................ 60 Previously on symfony ............................................................................................. 60 Login form validation............................................................................................... 60 Validation file ................................................