SymfonyCon 2022 Symfony UX Workshop Code!

Well hello there! This repo is only relevant to you if you're coming to my Symfony UX workshop at SymfonyCon 2020!

Setup

To get it working, follow these steps:

Download Composer dependencies

Make sure you have Composer installed and then run:

composer install

You may alternatively need to run php composer.phar install, depending on how you installed Composer.

Database Setup

The code comes with a docker-compose.yaml file and we recommend using Docker to boot a database container. You will still have PHP installed locally, but you'll connect to a database inside Docker. This is optional, but I think you'll love it!

First, make sure you have Docker installed and running. To start the container, run:

docker compose up -d

Next, build the database and the schema with:

# "symfony console" is equivalent to "bin/console"
# but its aware of your database container
symfony console doctrine:database:create --if-not-exists
symfony console doctrine:schema:update --force
symfony console doctrine:fixtures:load

If you do not want to use Docker, just make sure to start your own database server and update the DATABASE_URL environment variable in .env or .env.local before running the commands above.

Start the Symfony web server

You can use Nginx or Apache, but Symfony's local web server works even better.

To install the Symfony local web server, follow "Downloading the Symfony client" instructions found here: https://symfony.com/download - you only need to do this once on your system.

Then, to start the web server, open a terminal, move into the project, and run:

symfony serve

(If this is your first time using this command, you may see an error that you need to run symfony server:ca:install first).

Now check out the site at https://localhost:8000

Have fun!