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Mastering Symfony
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Mastering Symfony

by Sohail Salehi
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
290 pages
5h 51m
English
Packt Publishing

Overview

Mastering Symfony provides a deep dive into utilizing Symfony for web application development. By focusing on creating robust pipelines and leveraging advanced frameworks, the book guides you through building secure and maintainable applications. You will gain a thorough understanding of Symfony's core concepts alongside practical tools for optimizing your development workflow.

What this Book will help me do

  • Understand and skillfully apply Symfony's core components like Bundles and Doctrine to streamline application development.
  • Implement Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices with tools like Behat for testing application features effectively.
  • Set up and manage robust continuous integration and deployment pipelines using AWS to support scalable web applications.
  • Learn techniques for enhancing application performance, including caching with Memcached and Varnish.
  • Develop secure business logic and user interfaces with Symfony, implementing authentication and data protection seamlessly.

Author(s)

The authors of Mastering Symfony are seasoned PHP developers with comprehensive experience in web application development. They have crafted this book to bridge fundamental principles with advanced Symfony practices, drawing on industry standards and real-world use cases. Their educational approach is practical and aims to make complicated concepts accessible.

Who is it for?

This book is intended for PHP developers who have some prior experience with Symfony and wish to advance their expertise in the framework. If you're looking to develop secure, scalable, and high-performing web applications, this guide will provide the insights and tools necessary. Basic knowledge of object-oriented programming and PHP is presumed to maximize the learning experience.

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781784390310