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Symfony setup

Symfony setup

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Symfony setup

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- [Man] Let's take a look at how we can install and get setup using the Symfony framework. This framework is a little different, in that they have their own installer which is the preferred method for installing Symfony. You're more than welcome to use this method if you like to, they have the instructions on their website and it's fairly straight forward. It's a php installation and it'll pull down a bunch of things, and you set it up, and you run it and it has a little question and answer that determine how things get set up. One of the advantages of this is it'll plug right into your database if you want to. However, since we're all setup and ready to use Composer, let's go ahead and install using Composer. This is my personal favorite way. If you want to use the framework itself, you can go ahead and type in Composer create project and then the package is going to be symfony/framwork-standardedition and then determine where you want to install it, Just lik we do with a lot of…

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