I have created a Symfony 3 base project with many common bundles and other stuff already installed and configured.

After creating many new projects for my Symfony Classroom, I realized that, almost always, those bundles and the rest of stuff were been always also installed.

This base project comes with:

  • FriendsOfSymfony/FOSUserBundle
  • Your own UserBundle to extend from FosUserBundle (with createdAt and updatedAt extra fields added)
  • KnpLabs/KnpPaginatorBundle
  • Bootstrap 3 with horizontal login
  • Form templates
  • Symfony Reverse Proxy configured to allow esi parts
  • phpunit/phpunit (with a symbolic link under your bin folder. Simply run ‘./bin/phpunit’)
  • Atlantic18/DoctrineExtensions (Slug generation)
  • twig/extensions (time_diff)
  • translation enabled in config
  • symfony/assetic-bundle installed and configured
  • doctrine/doctrine-fixtures-bundle
  • vich/uploader-bundle installed and configured (with an example)

Installation

PHP >= 5.5.9 required

Installing Composer

Composer is the dependency manager used by modern PHP applications and it can also be used to create new applications.

Download the installer from getcomposer.org/download, execute it and follow the instructions.

Creating a new project with Composer

  php composer.phar create-project itrascastro/symfony-3-base-project my_project_name

If you did a global install and do not have the composer.phar in that directory run this instead:

  composer create-project itrascastro/symfony-3-base-project my_project_name

Initial Setup

  php bin/console doctrine:database:create

  php bin/console doctrine:schema:create

  php bin/console doctrine:fixtures:load

  php bin/console server:run

Now you can login with ‘admin’ user and ‘1234’ password. Default users are under ‘src/AppBundle/DataFixtures/ORM/LoadData.php’

If you want to test VichUploaderBundle, you can go to http://localhost/upload and submit an image. Do not forget to give 777 permissions to ‘web/images/upload’ folder:

  cd my_project_name

  chmod -R 777 web/images/upload