Chapter 2. The Request and Response Life Cycle
This chapter is a quick look at Symfony's fundamental features. We will use the request/response life cycle as a tool to discuss Model-View-Controller (MVC) in general and explore Symfony concepts such as routing, action (or controller, if you like), TWIG, Doctrine, and application setup. We will have a look at bundles and see how all of these concepts are organized in a bundle. Apart from creating a new bundle in this chapter, we will discuss the installation and how to modify and use bundles created by other developers.
The big picture
The request/response life cycle can be summarized in these two simple steps:
- Firstly, you send your request by entering a URL in your browser.
- The server then responds ...
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