Mastering Symfony

Installation

There are four ways to install the Symfony framework:

• Download the archive file in the root of our project and unpack it there
• Clone the project from GitHub
• Use the Symfony installer tool
• Use Composer to install it for us

The easiest way is to download the Symfony installer and make it publicly accessible via the following commands:

$ sudo curl -LsS https://symfony.com/installer -o /usr/local/bin/symfony
$ sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/symfony

Now create a new project simply by running the following command:

$ symfony new mava

As this command shows, it will ask the Symfony installer to create a new folder in the current path called mava, and when you hit enter, you will see that the Symfony source code will be downloaded to that folder: ...