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The Symfony Cookbook

The Symfony Cookbook is a continuously growing collection of specific recipes that explain how to correctly solve the most recurrent problems that Symfony developers face in their day to day work.

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The Cookbook¶

Assetic
- How to Use Assetic for Asset Management
- How to Minify JavaScripts and Stylesheets with YUI Compressor
- How to Use Assetic For Image Optimization with Twig Functions
- How to Apply an Assetic Filter to a Specific File Extension
Bundles
- How to use Best Practices for Structuring Bundles
- How to use Bundle Inheritance to Override parts of a Bundle
- How to Override any Part of a Bundle
- How to remove the AcmeDemoBundle
- How to expose a Semantic Configuration for a Bundle
Cache
- How to use Varnish to speed up my Website
Configuration
- How to Master and Create new Environments
- How to override Symfony’s Default Directory Structure
- Understanding how the Front Controller, Kernel and Environments work together
- How to Set External Parameters in the Service Container
- How to use PdoSessionStorage to store Sessions in the Database
- How to use the Apache Router
- Configuring a web server
Console
- How to create a Console Command
- How to use the Console
- How to generate URLs and send Emails from the Console
- How to enable logging in Console Commands
Controller
- How to customize Error Pages
- How to define Controllers as Services
Debugging
- How to optimize your development Environment for debugging
Deployment
- How to deploy a Symfony2 application
Doctrine
- How to handle File Uploads with Doctrine
- How to use Doctrine Extensions: Timestampable, Sluggable, Translatable, etc.
- How to Register Event Listeners and Subscribers
- How to use Doctrine’s DBAL Layer
- How to generate Entities from an Existing Database
- How to work with Multiple Entity Managers and Connections
- How to Register Custom DQL Functions
- How to implement a simple Registration Form
Email
- How to send an Email
- How to use Gmail to send Emails
- How to Work with Emails During Development
- How to Spool Emails
- How to test that an Email is sent in a functional Test
Event Dispatcher
- How to setup before and after Filters
- How to extend a Class without using Inheritance
- How to customize a Method Behavior without using Inheritance
- (service container) How to create an Event Listener
Form
- How to customize Form Rendering
- How to use Data Transformers
- How to Dynamically Modify Forms Using Form Events
- How to Embed a Collection of Forms
- How to Create a Custom Form Field Type
- How to Create a Form Type Extension
- How to use the Virtual Form Field Option
- How to configure Empty Data for a Form Class
- (validation) How to create a Custom Validation Constraint
- (doctrine) How to handle File Uploads with Doctrine
Logging
- How to use Monolog to write Logs
- How to Configure Monolog to Email Errors
Profiler
- How to create a custom Data Collector
Request
- How to register a new Request Format and Mime Type
Routing
- How to force routes to always use HTTPS or HTTP
- How to allow a “/” character in a route parameter
- How to configure a redirect to another route without a custom controller
- How to use HTTP Methods beyond GET and POST in Routes
- How to create a custom Route Loader
Security
- How to load Security Users from the Database (the Entity Provider)
- How to add “Remember Me” Login Functionality
- How to implement your own Voter to blacklist IP Addresses
- How to use Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- How to use Advanced ACL Concepts
- How to force HTTPS or HTTP for Different URLs
- How to customize your Form Login
- How to secure any Service or Method in your Application
- How to create a custom User Provider
- How to create a custom Authentication Provider
Service Container
- How to create an Event Listener
- How to work with Scopes
- How to work with Compiler Passes in Bundles
symfony1
- How Symfony2 differs from symfony1
Templating
- How to Inject Variables into all Templates (i.e. Global Variables)
- How to use PHP instead of Twig for Templates
- How to write a custom Twig Extension
- How to render a Template without a custom Controller
Testing
- How to simulate HTTP Authentication in a Functional Test
- How to simulate Authentication with a Token in a Functional Test
- How to test the Interaction of several Clients
- How to use the Profiler in a Functional Test
- How to test code that interacts with the Database
- How to test Doctrine Repositories
- How to customize the Bootstrap Process before running Tests
- (email) How to test that an Email is sent in a functional Test
Validation
- How to create a Custom Validation Constraint
Web Services
- How to Create a SOAP Web Service in a Symfony2 Controller
Workflow
- How to Create and store a Symfony2 Project in git
- How to Create and store a Symfony2 Project in Subversion

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