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How to Install 3rd Party Bundles
How to Install 3rd Party Bundles¶
Most bundles provide their own installation instructions. However, the basic steps for installing a bundle are the same:
A) Add Composer Dependencies¶
Dependencies are managed with Composer, so if Composer is new to you, learn some basics in their documentation. This involves two steps:
1) Find out the Name of the Bundle on Packagist¶
The README for a bundle (e.g. FOSUserBundle) usually tells you its name
(e.g. friendsofsymfony/user-bundle). If it doesn’t, you can search for
the bundle on the Packagist.org site.
Tip
Looking for bundles? Try searching at KnpBundles.com: the unofficial archive of Symfony Bundles.
2) Install the Bundle via Composer¶
Now that you know the package name, you can install it via Composer:
1 | $ composer require friendsofsymfony/user-bundle
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This will choose the best version for your project, add it to composer.json
and download its code into the vendor/ directory. If you need a specific
version, include it as the second argument of the composer require command:
1 | $ composer require friendsofsymfony/user-bundle "~2.0"
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B) Enable the Bundle¶
At this point, the bundle is installed in your Symfony project (in
vendor/friendsofsymfony/) and the autoloader recognizes its classes.
The only thing you need to do now is register the bundle in AppKernel:
// app/AppKernel.php
// ...
class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
// ...
public function registerBundles()
{
$bundles = array(
// ...
new FOS\UserBundle\FOSUserBundle(),
);
// ...
}
}
In a few rare cases, you may want a bundle to be only enabled in the development
environment. For example,
the DoctrineFixturesBundle helps to load dummy data - something you probably
only want to do while developing. To only load this bundle in the dev
and test environments, register the bundle in this way:
// app/AppKernel.php
// ...
class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
// ...
public function registerBundles()
{
$bundles = array(
// ...
);
if (in_array($this->getEnvironment(), array('dev', 'test'))) {
$bundles[] = new Doctrine\Bundle\FixturesBundle\DoctrineFixturesBundle();
}
// ...
}
}
C) Configure the Bundle¶
It’s pretty common for a bundle to need some additional setup or configuration
in app/config/config.yml. The bundle’s documentation will tell you about
the configuration, but you can also get a reference of the bundle’s configuration
via the config:dump-reference command:
1 | $ app/console config:dump-reference AsseticBundle
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Instead of the full bundle name, you can also pass the short name used as the root of the bundle’s configuration:
1 | $ app/console config:dump-reference assetic
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The output will look like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | assetic:
debug: '%kernel.debug%'
use_controller:
enabled: '%kernel.debug%'
profiler: false
read_from: '%kernel.root_dir%/../web'
write_to: '%assetic.read_from%'
java: /usr/bin/java
node: /usr/local/bin/node
node_paths: []
# ...
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Other Setup¶
At this point, check the README file of your brand new bundle to see
what to do next. Have fun!
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