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Installation and Configuration Symfony Framework

Symfony is an open-source PHP web application framework with MVC architecture. It is a set of reusable PHP components/libraries. It is basically designed for developers who need an elegant and simple toolkit to create web applications and is the most popular application frameworks among the open-source developer’s community. It is used to build high-performance complex web applications.

Prerequisites:

Installation:

  • Step 1: Go to xampp root folder and open htdocs folder there. Type “cmd” (without inverted commas) in the address bar(shown below) and hit enter.
  • Step 2: Enter the following command in the command prompt.
    composer create-project symfony/skeleton project_1

    In my case the name of project is project_1, you may take any name of your choice.
    If you see something like this then your project is created successfully.

  • Step 3: Start your xampp server and goto localhost/project_1/public.
    If you see something like this then your project is created successfully.

First Project: Here we will create a Hello World page in three steps.

  • Step 1: Create a new file named “HelloController.php” in src/Controller/ folder and write the following code in that file.




    <?php
    namespace App\Controller;
    use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
    class HelloController
    {
        public function hello()
        {
            return new Response(
                'Hello World'
            );
        }
    }

    
    
  • Step 2: Open config/routes.yaml file and write the following code in that file.




    app_hello:
        path: /
        controller: App\Controller\HelloController::hello

    
    
  • Step 3: Goto localhost/project_1/public.
    If you see something like this then you have successfully created hello world page.
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