Modular Programming with PHP 7

Implementation

We start by creating an entirely new Symfony project, running the following console command:

symfony new shop

This creates a new shop directory with all of the required files needed to run our application in the browser. Among these files and directories is the src/AppBundle directory, which is actually our core module. Before we can run our application in the browser, we need to map the newly created shop directory to a hostname, let's say shop.app, so we can access it in the browser via http://shop.app URL. Once this is done, if we open http://shop.app, we should see Welcome to Symfony 3.1.0 screen as shown here:

Though we have no ...