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Symfony concepts and features

Symfony concepts and features

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Symfony concepts and features

- [Instructor] Symfony has historically been a full stack framework. However, since Symfony 2, there is a little more flexibility in terms of using things on an ad-hoc basis. But the real strength of Symfony lies in the stack it provides and once you get a feel for the way Symfony handles things, you'll likely find it very easy to get started and work with. So Symfony has its own installer, or you can use Composer to install it if you want to. You can specify which version of Symfony you want to install when you are doing this installation. When you install Symfony, there are a few different ways you can install it. By default, you'll just install the sort of standard installation of Symfony. However, there are different applications within this environment that you can install as well. You can install the demo application, which will contain a little more along class lines, so you can see what's in there, it has some controllers, it has some actions, it has some other things, so you…

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