Symfony Documentation

Quick Tour

Get started fast with the Symfony Quick Tour:

• The Big Picture

• Flex: Compose your Application

• The Architecture

Getting Started

• Getting Started
  • Installing & Setting up the Symfony Framework
  • Create your First Page in Symfony
  • Routing
  • Controller
  • Creating and Using Templates
  • Configuring Symfony

Topics

• The Symfony Framework Best Practices
• The Bundle System
• Cache
• Console Commands
• Databases and the Doctrine ORM
• How to Deploy a Symfony Application
• Swift Mailer
• Events and Event Listeners
• Forms
• Managing CSS and JavaScript
• HTTP Cache
• HTTP Client
• Dealing with Concurrency with Locks
• Logging
• Sending Emails with Mailer
• Pushing Data to Clients Using the Mercure Protocol
• Messenger: Sync & Queued Message Handling
• Migrating an Existing Application to Symfony
• Creating and Sending Notifications
• Performance
• Profiler
• Rate Limiter
• Routing
• Security
• Sessions
• Installing & Setting up the Symfony Framework
• How to Use the Serializer
• Service Container
• Testing
• Translations
• Validation
• Asset Preloading and Resource Hints with HTTP/2 and WebLink
• Workflow

Components

Read the Components documentation.

Reference Documents

Get answers quickly with reference documents:

• Configuration Options

  Ever wondered what configuration options you have available to you in config/packages/*.yaml files? In this section, all the available configuration is broken down by the key (e.g. framework) that defines each possible section of your Symfony configuration.

  • framework

  • doctrine

  • security

  • swiftmailer

  • twig

  • monolog

  • web_profiler

  • debug

• Configuring the Kernel

• Forms and Validation

  • Form Field Type Reference

  • Validation Constraints Reference

  • Twig Template Function and Variable Reference

• Twig Extensions (forms, filters, tags, etc) Reference

• Other Areas

  • Built-in Symfony Service Tags

  • Built-in Symfony Events

Contributing

Contribute to Symfony:

• Code of Conduct

  • Code of Conduct

  • Reporting Guidelines

  • CARE Team

  • Code of Conduct: Concrete Example Document

• Code

  • Bugs

  • Getting a Stack Trace

  • Pull Requests

  • Reviewing Issues and Pull Requests

  • Maintenance

  • The Core Team

  • Security

  • Tests

  • Backward Compatibility

  • Coding Standards

  • Code Conventions

  • Git

  • License

• Documentation

  • Overview

  • Format

  • Documentation Standards

  • License

• Community

  • Release Process

  • Respectful Review comments

  • Community Reviews

• Diversity

  • Governance

Create your Own Framework

Want to create your own framework based on Symfony?

• Introduction

• The HttpFoundation Component

• The Front Controller

• The Routing Component

• Templating

• The HttpKernel Component: the Controller Resolver

• The Separation of Concerns

• Unit Testing

• The EventDispatcher Component

• The HttpKernel Component: HttpKernelInterface

• The HttpKernel Component: The HttpKernel Class

• The DependencyInjection Component