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One of my main goals in these tutorials will be to help you really understand how Symfony - how your application - works.
To start with that, let's take a quick look at the directory structure.
There are only three directories you need to think about. First, public/ is the document root: so it will hold all files that need to be accessible by a browser. And... there's only one right now: index.php:
| ... lines 1 - 2 | |
| use App\Kernel; | |
| use Symfony\Component\ErrorHandler\Debug; | |
| use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request; | |
| require dirname(__DIR__).'/config/bootstrap.php'; | |
| if ($_SERVER['APP_DEBUG']) { | |
| umask(0000); | |
| Debug::enable(); | |
| } | |
| if ($trustedProxies = $_SERVER['TRUSTED_PROXIES'] ?? $_ENV['TRUSTED_PROXIES'] ?? false) { | |
| Request::setTrustedProxies(explode(',', $trustedProxies), Request::HEADER_X_FORWARDED_ALL ^ Request::HEADER_X_FORWARDED_HOST); | |
| } | |
| if ($trustedHosts = $_SERVER['TRUSTED_HOSTS'] ?? $_ENV['TRUSTED_HOSTS'] ?? false) { | |
| Request::setTrustedHosts([$trustedHosts]); | |
| } | |
| $kernel = new Kernel($_SERVER['APP_ENV'], (bool) $_SERVER['APP_DEBUG']); | |
| $request = Request::createFromGlobals(); | |
| $response = $kernel->handle($request); | |
| $response->send(); | |
| $kernel->terminate($request, $response); |
This is called the "front controller": a fancy word that programmers invented to mean that this is the file that's executed by your web server.
But, really, other than putting CSS or image files into public/, you'll almost never need to think about it.
So... I kinda lied. There are truly only two directories that you need to think about: config/ and src/. config/ holds... um... puppies? No, config/ holds config files and src/ is where all your PHP code will go. It's just that simple.
Where is Symfony? Our project started with a composer.json:
| { | |
| "type": "project", | |
| "license": "proprietary", | |
| "require": { | |
| "php": "^7.2.5", | |
| "ext-ctype": "*", | |
| "ext-iconv": "*", | |
| "symfony/console": "5.0.*", | |
| "symfony/dotenv": "5.0.*", | |
| "symfony/flex": "^1.3.1", | |
| "symfony/framework-bundle": "5.0.*", | |
| "symfony/yaml": "5.0.*" | |
| }, | |
| "require-dev": { | |
| }, | |
| ... lines 16 - 64 | |
| } |
file, which lists all the third-party libraries that our app requires. Behind the scenes, that symfony new command used composer to install these... which is a fancy way of saying that Composer downloaded a bunch of libraries into the vendor/ directory... including Symfony itself.
We'll talk more about the other files and directories along the way... but they're not important yet.
A few minutes ago, we used PHP itself to start a local web server. Cool. But hit Ctrl+C to quit that. Why? Because that handy symfony binary tool we installed comes with a more powerful local server. Run:
symfony serve
That's it. The first time you run this, it may ask you about installing a certificate. That's optional. If you do install it - I did - it will start the web server with https. Yep, you get https locally with zero config.
Once it's running, move over to your browser and refresh. It works! And the little lock icon proves that we're now using https.
To stop the web server, just hit Control + C. You can see all of this command's options by running:
symfony serve --help
Like ways to control the port number. When I use this command, I usually run:
symfony serve -d
The -d means to run as a daemon. It does the exact same thing except that now it runs in the background... which means I can still use this terminal. Running:
symfony server:status
Shows me that the server is running and:
symfony server:stop
Will stop it. Let's start it again:
symfony serve -d
Ok: we're about to start doing a lot of coding... so I want to make sure your editor is ready to go. And, yea, you can use whatever editor your want. But I highly recommend PhpStorm! Seriously, it makes developing in Symfony a dream! And no, the nice people at PhpStorm aren't paying me to say this... though... they do actually sponsor several open source PHP devs... which is kinda better.
To really make PhpStorm awesome, you need to do two things. First, open the Preferences, select "Plugins" and click "Marketplace". Search for "Symfony".
This plugin is amazing... proven by the nearly 4 million downloads. This will give us all kinds of extra auto-completion & intelligence for Symfony. If you don't have it already, install it. You should also install the "PHP Annotations" and "PHP toolbox" plugins. If you search for "php toolbox"... you can see all three of them. Install them and restart PhpStorm.
Once you've restarted, go back to Preferences and Search for Symfony. In addition to installing the plugin, you also need to enable it on a project-by-project basis. Check Enable and then apply. It says you need to restart PhpStorm... but I don't think that's true.
The second thing you need to do in PhpStorm is to search for Composer and find the "Languages and Frameworks", "PHP", "Composer" section. Make sure the "Synchronize IDE settings with composer.json" box is checked... which automatically configures several useful things.
Hit "Ok" and... we are ready! Let's create our very first page and see what Symfony is all about, next.
Hey Samuel S.!
> My php storm is not bringing out the full prediction when I'm typing
> Return new response
Hmmm. This is one of the most basic features that PhpStorm gives you, so it definitely makes me think something is wrong. Two questions:
1) Does the code work? If you add the use statement and type all the code, does it work? That will help answer the question of whether or not all the vendor code is installed correctly.
2) How did you open PhpStorm? I usually go to "File -> Open" and select my entire Symfony directory. After you do this, you should see all the folders - like config/, src/ and public/ - on the left tree. If you somehow only opened a *specific* file (not the entire directory), then you would probably not get auto-complete.
> I also noticed that your initial command (symfony new cauldron_overflow) is not working
Hmm, did you get an error when you ran this? Do you remember what the error was?
Don't worry, I'm sure we'll figure out what's going on :).
Cheers!
I've seen my mistake.
I always write response with a lowercase r instead of uppercase like so: ' Response'
Your response time is impressive.
Thank you very much.
Cheers.
Ah... good catch! Thanks for letting me know - I'll put that on my "list of things that might be preventing auto-complete" to think about!
Cheer!
1. Yes, the code works when I manually input the use statement.
2. I open the the entire symfony folder.
Folza
| posted 6 months ago
After symfony server:ca:install it makes the connection insecure in Chrome.
Hey Folza,
Make sure you open https://127.0.0.1:8000/ by the HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP :)
Cheers!
Hi guys !
I just followed your videos and just after generating the project I got that issue when I run the server :
Uncaught PHP Exception Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\NotFoundHttpException: "No route found for "GET http://localhost:8000/"" at C:\{My path}\app\vendor\symfony\http-kernel\EventListener\RouterListener.php line 130
I tried to create the (full) project with composer instead of symfony CLI but same problem.
Could someone help me ? Thx !!
Hey Pierre Lds!
Hmm, that's not what we want! Well, it *kind* of is :). After you first create a project, it's true that you don't have any "routes" yet and so if you go to the homepage, then you *should* get no matching route (which is what your error means). However, Symfony has a nice feature for this situation where it shows you that "welcome page" if you have this situation. So I'm not sure why you're not seeing that!
I've just started a new (Symfony 6) project with the symfony binary... and I see the welcome page just fine. So this is a mystery to me - I can't explain what's happening? I guess I would ignore it and keep coding, as the welcome back isn't *needed*. But keep an eye out for anything else weird, and let me know if you see anything.
Cheers!
Hey vespino_rojo
That's a good question. I'm not totally sure if it works out of the box but Symfony has Docker support, you only need to run your console commands through Symfony's binarysymfony serve -d
That will set up the env vars properly. You can read a bit more here https://symfony.com/doc/current/setup/symfony_server.html#symfony-server-docker
Cheers!
Hey Nizar
Yep we have this course on our list, but I can't provide any details when it will be released!
Cheers!
Hi, thanks for the great work !
I have an issue when I use the symfony local web server. I run this command:
symfony serve
And I get this output:
`
Tailing Web Server log file (/home/user/.symfony/log/a07f55e8aab485bac93249e125f7fa400b627b3f.log)
Tailing PHP log file (/home/user/.symfony/log/a07f55e8aab485bac93249e125f7fa400b627b3f/7daf403c7589f4927632ed3b6af762a992f09b78.log)
[OK] Web server listening
The Web server is using PHP CLI 7.4.3
https://127.0.0.1:8000
[Web Server ] Apr 17 18:31:40 |DEBUG | PHP Reloading PHP versions
[Web Server ] Apr 17 18:31:40 |DEBUG | PHP Using PHP version 7.4.3 (from default version in $PATH)
[PHP ] [Sat Apr 17 18:31:40 2021] PHP 7.4.3 Development Server (http://127.0.0.1:45781) started
[Web Server ] Apr 17 18:31:40 |INFO | PHP listening path="/usr/bin/php7.4" php="7.4.3" port=45781
`
The problem is that when I try to access https://127.0.0.1:8000 in my browser, it does not work. I get a "connection failed" error.
But it actually works when I access this url: http://127.0.0.1:45781
Do you have any idea about what is wrong in my setup ?
Thanks :)
Hey Aurelien A.
Have you tried to load http://127.0.0.1:8000? If it works, then it's problem with local ssl certificates. You have two possible scenarios:
symfony serve --no-tlssymfony server:ca:install and try again with httpsCheers
Hey,
Thanks for the answer. Yes I also tried http://127.0.0.1:8000 but unfortunately it is not working.
Hey, sorry for the late answer. This is not working either.This is the ouput when I run symfony server:start --no-tls
<blockquote>Tailing Web Server log file (/home/user/.symfony/log/a07f55e8aab485bac93249e125f7fa400b627b3f.log)
Tailing PHP log file (/home/user/.symfony/log/a07f55e8aab485bac93249e125f7fa400b627b3f/7daf403c7589f4927632ed3b6af762a992f09b78.log)
[OK] Web server listening
The Web server is using PHP CLI 7.4.3
http://127.0.0.1:8000
[Web Server ] Apr 28 18:52:54 |DEBUG | PHP Reloading PHP versions
[Web Server ] Apr 28 18:52:55 |DEBUG | PHP Using PHP version 7.4.3 (from default version in $PATH)
[Web Server ] Apr 28 18:52:55 |INFO | PHP listening path="/usr/bin/php7.4" php="7.4.3" port=42001
[PHP ] [Wed Apr 28 18:52:55 2021] PHP 7.4.3 Development Server (http://127.0.0.1:42001) started
</blockquote>
re installing certificates does not change anything either.
It is still working on http://127.0.0.1:42001, but this is inconveniant because when I want to try routes with Postman for example I have to change my base url port everytime I start the local web server
weird....What OS are you using? And how have you installed your php? some path looks weird to me so I need more info about your env to help
As suggestion to test have you tried to run native php server? with php -S 127.0.0.1:8000 -t ./public from your project folder?
Cheers and sorry for late answer 😊
Hey,
Sorry for the late answer too
I am using Windows 10 with WSL 2. I launch the server from wsl 2 terminal (ubuntu 20.04). php native server is working !
php -S 127.0.0.1:8000 -t ./public
[Mon May 10 17:12:23 2021] PHP 7.4.3 Development Server (http://127.0.0.1:8000) started
[Mon May 10 17:12:29 2021] 127.0.0.1:40662 Accepted
[Mon May 10 17:12:32 2021] 127.0.0.1:40662 [404]: GET /
[Mon May 10 17:12:32 2021] 127.0.0.1:40662 Closing
[Mon May 10 17:12:32 2021] 127.0.0.1:40664 Accepted
[Mon May 10 17:12:33 2021] 127.0.0.1:40664 [200]: GET /_wdt/7464bd
[Mon May 10 17:12:33 2021] 127.0.0.1:40664 Closing
[Mon May 10 17:12:33 2021] 127.0.0.1:40666 Accepted
Tell me if you need more info :)
Cheers
woh my guess is that WSL2 is not fully compatible with symfony binary...as a solution try to install php-fpm package on ubuntu, this may solve your issue with symfony server... I hope it will solve it =)
Cheers!
Hey,
I tried something I should've try a long time ago. I used curl to check if I could access https://127.0.0.1:8000 and it worked, so I knew the problem came from my browser.
Then, I tried https://localhost:8000/ on my browser and it worked ! https://127.0.0.1:8000 is still not working, but it is fine. I don't really know why it didn't work but I am glad I found a solution.
Thank you for your time !
That is very strange... I'm happy that you found this solution and shared info with us!
Keep learning! Cheers!
Hi, great tutorials!
I was wondering about installing an SSL certificate with "symfony server:ca:install"
Because I am usually working from a standard user account on my mac, I cannot use this command. Sure, I can log as admin and install it there, but then the certificate is local, right? So I cannot use it in my standard account.
Any workarounds to installing this certificate on my standard account?
Thanks!
Hey Georg,
Difficult to say, do you have any errors when you're trying to install the certs when you're on behalf of your standard user account?
> Sure, I can log as admin and install it there, but then the certificate is local, right?
Unfortunately, I'm not sure how it works internally, but you can probably try, why not? It might work. Also, you can take a look at "--p12" option for "symfony serve" command, from its description it says "Certificate path (p12 format)" - so it might work I suppose, you can try to install the certs from the admin user and try to reference to them with this option. You probably would need to change the owner of them get the access from your standard user, or probably even move them to a public dir - though not sure if it's secure or no :)
> Any workarounds to installing this certificate on my standard account?
Workarounds - well, do not use HTTPS probably. You can run the webserver with:
$ symfony serve --no-tls
This way the website will be available via HTTP only.
I hope this helps!
Cheers!
Hi there,
my project has been growing for some time. I start the server with `symfony serve --no-tls` and get the message:
"Tailing PHP log file (/home/georg/.symfony/log/df57c473ebee3810bfb1dcf72982d4afc7f35e5b/7daf403c7589f4927632ed3b6af762a992f09b78.log)"
Each time I start the server there are more of these (identical) lines. At the moment about 80. This is just an inconvenience, but possibly something is wrong with the setup?!
Hey Georg,
It seems like a new feature in Symfony built-in web server. For me it looks like this:
Tailing Web Server log file (/Users/victor/.symfony/log/b3fd8c54109f8b0e07dcd737c5262b5d0567b392.log)
Tailing PHP-FPM log file (/Users/victor/.symfony/log/b3fd8c54109f8b0e07dcd737c5262b5d0567b392/53fb8ec204547646acb3461995e4da5a54cc7575.log)
So this is OK, just some extra log files are shown in the output :)
Cheers!
Hello for the previous message i finded a solution
└──╼ apt-get install php7.4-curl php7.4-mbstring php7.4-pgsql php7.4-intl
but, it stay this warning, i continue cherching but if you know wat is about, thank you for you help
PHP Warning: Module 'intl' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
Hey Diallo,
Glad to hear you were able to install PDO driver!
Hm, about Intl - looks like it's loaded twice in your PHP config, you need to look at your config and comment out or remove the line where PHP loads it the 2nd time - try to look in your php.ini config. Or, probably try to remove that "php7.4-intl" extra package and try again, it should gone. Probably it was installed and enabled out of the box already for you.
Cheers!
hello i have this issues, please help !!!
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'intl' (tried: /usr/lib/php/20190902/intl (/usr/lib/php/20190902/intl: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib/php/20190902/intl.so (/usr/lib/php/20190902/intl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0
Hey dialbak
I believe you haven't install the php-intl module on your local environment. If you're on Ubuntu you can do this sudo apt-get install php-intl
Cheers!
I can get the PHP web server running just fine on 127.0.0.1:8000 (had to quit Apache, from Filemaker Server that was running, to get it to load on 127.0.0.1:8000). I can't get the PHP webserver to respond on localhost. When I run symfony serve, i get an error - localhost: no such host. I am not sure what I am missing to get the symfony web server running. (Mac OS 10.15.6)
I poked around some more and figure out that I needed to bind localhost to 127.0.0.1. That solved the issue and symfony server is now running.
Hey Wade C.
Weird situation. In most cases localhost IS binded to 127.0.0.1 by default.
Great that you solved this issue and shared result with us.
Cheers
I'm running a lot of different dev tools on my laptop, like a dev copy of Filemaker Server that runs a local webserver. I had to stop FM Server to get Symfony Server to run. Somewhere along the line, one of the dev tools probably unbound localhost.
I am going back through the tutorial and using it as a guide while I am building a new project. I have another project that I need to start on soon. Can I have a different instance of Symfony server running as a daemon for each project if I set each to a different port number? or do I have to start and stop Symfony serve depending on which project I am working on?
Great question! Of course you can start as much servers as you want =) If you have enough ports and memory to work with =) You can even have .wip domain names with built-in proxy server, but it's another story =) You can read about it here https://symfony.com/doc/current/setup/symfony_server.html
Hi, i didn't get the https in the command. it is only http. that's means it's not secure.
What can i do to fix that problem?
[OK] Web server listening
http://127.0.0.1:8000
Hey @Shayma
You need to run symfony server:ca:install to install a local SSL certificate, then you will be able to run your project through https locally
Cheers!
Thank you to help me, i actually repeat everything from the beginning but i have this error:
What is that supposed to mean?
Setting up the project under Git version control
(running git init C:\Users\shaym\cauldron_overflow)
|
*** Please tell me who you are.
Run
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.
fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'shaym@LAPTOP-8877L5EN.(none)')
exit status 128
Hey @Shayma!
Ah! That's not a very clear error :). It looks like you're using git for the first time on this system. Try this:
A) Run those 2 comments that it mentioned (the 2 git config commands) but you use real email and name.
B) Re-run the `symfony new</command>
When you first use git on a machine, it asks you to set your name & email. It does this so that when you make any commits, it can use your email and name for those commits. The symfony new command failed because it tries to setup a git repository for you, but those 2 settings weren't there yet.
Let me know if that helps!
Cheers!
Hey,
Thanks! it's worked when i put my real email. but now i have another issue :( sorry to bothering you!
it says when i run php -s 127.0.0.1:8000 -t public/: Directory public/ does not exist.
And when i do the check:req, it's says that's ok but php need to be installed:
a PHP accelerator should be installed
> Install and/or enable a PHP accelerator (highly recommended).
* realpath_cache_size should be at least 5M in php.ini
> Setting "realpath_cache_size" to e.g. "5242880" or "5M" in
> php.ini* may improve performance on Windows significantly in some
> cases
Can you tell me how to solve this problem?
Hey Shayma,
The better would be to run the project on Symfony web server instead of running built-in PHP web server as you do. If you have symfony binary installed - you just need to run:
$ symfony serve
And it will run the website, then just follow the link in the output.
But in case you want to run the website with PHP built-in web server - looks like the error is pretty obvious, it says the public/ folder does not exist. I suppose you created a new project, but then you should go into the project directory. I.e. after you executed "symfony new my-new-project" Symfony binary created a "my-new-project" folder, so you need to change directory to it, i.e. execute "cd my-new-project" and only then run that "php -s 127.0.0.1:8000 -t public/". When you're in your "my-new-project" directory, to make sure you have public/ folder - you can run "ls public/" command in your terminal.
I hope this helps!
About "check:req" output: if those are just warnings/recommendations - you can completely ignore them for now, the project should run well. But it's recommend to do for production when you will deploy your application for real users. Google how to install PHP accelerator or how to tweak that php.ini config for your OS - it may be different for different OS.
Cheers!
Hey Victor,
Thanks a lot!! You really helped me out. It's working now. I appreciate your help.
Cheers
After running symfony serve -d I'm getting a privacy warning in the browser ('Your connection is not private') and my terminal is showing:
WARNING unable to find the application log
2020/05/12 14:25:20 http: TLS handshake error from 127.0.0.1:55434: remote error: tls: unknown certificate
2020/05/12 14:25:20 http: TLS handshake error from 127.0.0.1:55436: remote error: tls: unknown certificate
2020/05/12 14:25:20 http: TLS handshake error from 127.0.0.1:55442: remote error: tls: unknown certificate
2020/05/12 14:25:20 http: TLS handshake error from 127.0.0.1:55444: remote error: tls: unknown certificate
2020/05/12 14:25:30 http: TLS handshake error from 127.0.0.1:55448: remote error: tls: unknown certificate
2020/05/12 14:25:33 http: TLS handshake error from 127.0.0.1:55450: remote error: tls: unknown certificate
2020/05/12 14:25:33 http: TLS handshake error from 127.0.0.1:55452: remote error: tls: unknown certificate
2020/05/12 14:26:00 http: TLS handshake error from 127.0.0.1:55446: EOF
^CMay 12 14:26:08 |INFO | SERVER shutting down
May 12 14:26:08 |DEBUG| PHP stopped path="/usr/bin/php7.2" php="7.2.24"
May 12 14:26:08 |INFO | SERVER shut down, bye!
It was working when I completed this chapter but after creating the QuestionController in chapter 3 I started getting the above issues. Any help is appreciated
// composer.json
{
"require": {
"php": "^7.3.0 || ^8.0.0",
"ext-ctype": "*",
"ext-iconv": "*",
"easycorp/easy-log-handler": "^1.0.7", // v1.0.9
"sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "^6.0", // v6.2.1
"symfony/asset": "5.0.*", // v5.0.11
"symfony/console": "5.0.*", // v5.0.11
"symfony/debug-bundle": "5.0.*", // v5.0.11
"symfony/dotenv": "5.0.*", // v5.0.11
"symfony/flex": "^1.3.1", // v1.17.5
"symfony/framework-bundle": "5.0.*", // v5.0.11
"symfony/monolog-bundle": "^3.0", // v3.5.0
"symfony/profiler-pack": "*", // v1.0.5
"symfony/routing": "5.1.*", // v5.1.11
"symfony/twig-pack": "^1.0", // v1.0.1
"symfony/var-dumper": "5.0.*", // v5.0.11
"symfony/webpack-encore-bundle": "^1.7", // v1.8.0
"symfony/yaml": "5.0.*" // v5.0.11
},
"require-dev": {
"symfony/profiler-pack": "^1.0" // v1.0.5
}
}
My php storm is not bringing out the full prediction when I'm typing
Return new response...
Hence its unable to auto complete the use symfony\component\httpfoundation\response;
Is the problem with the php storm or my installations, I'm using windows and I also noticed that your initial command (symfony new cauldron_overflow) is not working.