Symfony

Getting Started

symfony 1.4

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction .................................................................................... 3 Chapter 2: Prerequisites................................................................................... 4 Third-Party Software ................................................................................................. 4 Command Line Interface ........................................................................................... 4 PHP Configuration..................................................................................................... 4 Chapter 3: Symfony Installation ....................................................................... 6 Initializing the Project Directory ............................................................................... 6 Choosing the Symfony Version .................................................................................. 6 Choosing the Symfony Installation Location............................................................. 6 Installing Symfony ..................................................................................................... 7
Installing from an archive .................................................................................................... 7 Installing from Subversion (recommended)......................................................................... 7

Chapter 4: Project Setup................................................................................... 9 Project Creation......................................................................................................... 9
Installation Verification ...................................................................................................... 10Configuring the Database ........................................................................................ 10 Application Creation ................................................................................................ 11 Directory Structure Rights ...................................................................................... 12 Chapter 5: Web Server Configuration............................................................ 13 The ugly Way ........................................................................................................... 13 The secure Way ....................................................................................................... 13
Web ServerConfiguration.................................................................................................. 13 Test the New Configuration ............................................................................................... 15

Chapter 6: The Environments ......................................................................... 17 Chapter 7: What’s next?.................................................................................. 20 Appendix A: The Sandbox............................................................................... 22 Appendix B: License........................................................................................ 24 Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License ........................................................ 24

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Chapter 1

IntroductionThe symfony framework is a full-stack MVC framework that helps you develop websites faster. It also establishes a set of best practices that will help you to develop maintainable and secure websites. And advocating best practices starts as soon as you want to install the framework itself. Installing symfony is not very much different to installing any other PHP software but, to make your...