10 Essential Tips to Master Symfony Like a Pro
Symfony is an awesome PHP framework that can help you build powerful web applications. But like any great and robust tool, it takes time to understand at first and even more time to master. So to help you dive into this mysterious tool here is ten tips to help you go into Symfony.
- Get comfortable with PHP and OOP
Yes that seems obvious, but having a great exeperience and being comfortable with PHP and OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) will help you a lot to understand how Symfony works.
2. Learn what is MVC
MVC (Model-View-Controller) is at the heart of Symfony, it’s the design pattern on which Symfony is based. Reading a lot of documentation about MVC will save you a lot of time later. By doing this, you will learn concepts such as MVC architecture, file naming conventions, and much more. The more comfortable you are with this concept, the more easily you will understand how Symfony works.
3. Dive into Symfony Docs
Symfony’s documentation is really great, even if you are an experienced developer. You can start with the ‘Getting Started’ section, which will guide you through the Symfony setup and help you quickly have a working project. Make a note of the link to Symfony’s documentation somewhere and get into the habit of referring to it…
