Symfony 2 Blog

This is a simple blog written in Symfony 2, initially following the symblog tutorial at http://tutorial.symblog.co.uk/. Through the mentorship of Matthew Turland, it has progressed into a more Service Oriented Architecture.

Since Symfony 2 has gained immense popularity in the PHP community, I wanted to explore the framework. As Symfony bundles are a large part of that ecosystem, I sought out bundled solutions wherever appropriate. Some of the bundles utilized, outside of the standard framework, include:

FOS/RestBundle
Ddeboer/GuzzleBundle
JMS/SerializeBundle

Having never developed an application using SOA, this approach was decided to expose me to new approaches. The separation of front-end and back-end paves the way for future development excursions, including mobile app front-ends, or editor integration such as posting new articles.

Installation Instructions

git clone https://github.com/keelerm84/symfony-blog.git
php bin/vendors install
# To run the tests
phpunit -c apps