Briefly on Symfony Development Basics

PHP developers use a variety of IT application development technologies and programming tools , including Zend, CodeIgniter, CakePHP and Symfony web  frameworks. Symfony has quickly become very popular with web developers and is widely used by many software development companies for its flexibility and scalability.

In a few words on Symfony development framework

Symfony is an open source PHP web application framework that supports MVC paradigm. It allows a web developer to easily control application configuration and comes bundled with additional tools for app testing, debugging and documenting, which makes the development process more consistent and comprehensive.

Benefits of bundles in Symfony Development

Symfony is a web framework with a modular structure and contains a set of default plug-ins (called bundles). Bundles help accelerate Symfony development and rapidly scale up web applications. Web developers have an opportunity to customize individual bundles, add extra bundles and expand other systems with this framework that complements new functionality.

More on MVC model in Symfony development

MVC model allows web developer to separate business logic from presentation and logically divide development of user interface and web application functionality.

• Model

The interaction between a database and an application in Symfony is streamlined due to the object-relational mapping layer (integrated Doctrine and Propel). Doctrine enables web programmers to retrieve and persist objects from/to a data storage. This task is solved with metadata or YAML, XML configuration that enable a web developer to map PHP classes and their properties.

• View

To render the presentation of your web application Symfony developers use either PHP templates or Twig templating engine. Though, Twig adds up more efficiency to web application development due to its simplicity. It has filters and tags and this list can be expanded by the own tags of a web developer. The real edge of Twig engine for developers is its inheritance feature.

• Controller

In Symfony application PHP function is executed in a simple way. Each app query is processed in an easy way. First front controller processes user request and launches the application. Then the Router searches appropriate controller to read PHP function to be performed. Eventually, the response is sent back to the client and the presentation is rendered.

Many PHP developers have already got the advantages of Symfony development, make active use of this framework in their web projects and contribute to the community, suggesting new interesting solutions.