Thilanga Pitigala

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Symfony2 - Setup an Application in a minute

[  Framework  Howtos  Symfony2  Tutorial  ] 17 Dec 2012

  1. Download

    Download the Symfony Standard Edition from symfony.com

    At the moment of writing this post latest stable version is 2.1

         cd /home/user/Downloads/
     wget --content-disposition 'http://symfony.com/download?v=Symfony_Standard_Vendors_2.1.4.tgz'
     tar -zxvf Symfony_Standard_Vendors_2.1.4.tgz
     mv Symfony /var/www/symfony

    Then Point /var/www/symfony/web directory to the your web server

  2. Configuration

    Now We are going to use app.php as the main index file instead of playing with app_dev.php within the development environment.

         vim web/app.php

    Replace your app.php with the below code

         // Make group permissions stick in `cache/log` dirs
     umask(0002);

     use Symfony\Component\ClassLoader\ApcClassLoader;
     use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

     $loader = require_once __DIR__.'/../app/bootstrap.php.cache';

     require_once __DIR__.'/../app/AppKernel.php';
     $env = 'prod';
     if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))
     {
         if (preg_match('/(localhost|local\.)/', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))
         {
             $env = 'dev';
         }
     }

     $kernel = new AppKernel($env, $env == 'dev');
     $kernel->loadClassCache();

     $request = Request::createFromGlobals();

     $response = $kernel->handle($request);
     $response->send();

     $kernel->terminate($request, $response);

    Load your Symfony site by typing http://localhost/symfony in your web browser. Now you can access Symfony Development environment without visiting to app_dev.php.

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