Symfony Blog

I started to get familiar with the Symfony framework.

As a starting point, I decided to create a simple blog starting from scratch.

I will be using the latest MySQL 8, PHP 8.1, Symfony 5.4 for now.

Approximate plan

Implementation steps:

Install the framework Symfony and start the server
Separation front and admin area, each with its own a skeleton template
- front: Bootstrap 5
- admin: SB Admin
Registration, authentication, authorization (separate forms for front and admin areas)
Users with roles: ROLE_USER, ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN

In the admin area

Dashboard
Blog management
- Posts
- Categories
- Tags
Page management
User management

Install

You have locally installed: php8, mysql, composer, nodejs, npm, yarn, symfony

git clone git@github.com:amberlex78/syBlog.git
cd syBlog
cp .env .env.local
composer install
yarn install
yarn encore dev
make db-seed
symfony server:start -d

Install via Docker

Add to /etc/hosts file line 127.0.0.1 syblog.test

git clone git@github.com:amberlex78/syBlog.git
cd syBlog
cp .env .env.local

Set DATABASE_URL in the .env.local file:

DATABASE_URL="mysql://symfony:symfony@mysql:3306/symfony?serverVersion=8.0"

See database connection in docker-compose.yml

Init and setup:

make init
make setup
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .

Seeding

Seeding demo data:

make db-dul

(schema:drop, schema:update, fixtures:load)

Docker

Up

Docker up docker-compose up -d or:

make up

Down

Docker down docker-compose down --remove-orphans or:

make down

See all command in Makefile file.

Access to site

Front:

https://127.0.0.1:8000

Front for Docker:

http://syblog.test

Admin:

https://127.0.0.1:8000/admin

Admin for Docker:

http://syblog.test/admin

Users

user@example.com   - User
admin@example.com  - Admin
sadmin@example.com - Super Admin

Password: password

amberlex78/syblog