This is my contribution to BlogMVC.com using Symfony 4. I used this project to learn the framework so if you think some patterns are not respected please create an issue :).
composer install
php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force
# php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate
php bin/console doctrine:fixtures:load
php bin/console server:runI cheated a bit using 2 bundles :
- KnpPaginatorBundle for the pagination
- KnpTimeBundle for the "3 minutes ago" text
We could cheat even more using
- FOSUserBundle to manage user login / registration
- SonataAdminBundle to manage backend
- StofDoctrineExtensionsBundle to manage the "sluggable" behaviour
Here are some question discovered during this project
- To "counter cache" the number of posts associated to each Category I created an EventSubscriber but I have to check the entity type. Is there a way to attach a subscriber to an Entity using annotation or anything else ?
- To avoid n+1 queries on a ManyToOne I have to give up the findAll / findBy methods and use the queryBuilder to make a LEFT JOIN. Is there a better way ? Does it affect Doctrine hydratation ?
- I split my backend in a bundle instead of namespace. is it considered a good or bad practice ? Is there a way to prefix all routes inside a Bundle ?
- The sidebar need to be shared accress pages. I created a service injected as a "global" twig variable PartialService. Is there a better way to achieve that ?
- For the timestamps (created_at and updated_at) I used a trait since it seemed to be the easies way to reach the goal. Is it considered bad