Post on 06-May-2015
Who am I?
Yahoo! – Application Platform + Dev Network
Worked with Y! Answers, Delicious, Y! Bookmarks, Y! Widgets, Yahoo! Application Platform
Working with symfony since open source
symfony Core Team Member
Responsible for symfony at Yahoo!
symfony-project.com | developer.yahoo.com/yui
Users
Load Balancers
Frontend
PHPAPC, PEAR, PECL, Custom Extensions
FreeBSD 4.x/6.x, Linux 2.6.x
ysymfony / YUIApacheCustom Modules
Backend
MySQL/Oracle Web Services Ad API User API
Why use a frontend platform?
Rasmus says “frameworks are not well suited for Y!”
Build applications to requirements
Do exactly what you need: no more, no less
Understand that frameworks add overhead
Choosing functional components is a better fit
Despite choosing open source or building your own
Everyone uses a framework
If you use open source, you get maintenance for free
Why use a framework?
Another software layer (symfony, php, apache)
Factors out common patterns
Code Layout, Configuration, URL Routing
ORM / Data Access
Authentication / Security (XSS/CSRF)
Form Widgets / Validation / Repopulation
Internationalization / Localization
Debugging and Testing utilities
Encourages good design
Abstraction > Consistency > Maintainability
YUI3
The syntax is more terse, allowing you to write more compact code using techniques like chaining.
The API is selector-driven, which allows you to target page elements flexibly.
The library is even more modular and granular than before, so you only put code on the page for features you need.
YUI3
Lighter
Don't load what you don't need
Don't write code more than once, use it again
Easier
Consistent API
Base, Selector, Widget, IO/Get/DataSource
Convenience
each, bind, nodelist, queue, chainability, general sugar
Faster
Opportunity to re-factor core performance pain points
A full stack MVC Framework
Written in OOP PHP5
Developed by a French company, Sensio Labs
Released open source in October 2005
Licensed under MIT license
A large community of active developers
A unit + functional testing library, LIME
What is symfony?
The Big Picture
A complete platform for building web applications from frameworks
PHP Framework
JavaScript Framework
CSS Framework
UI Design Patterns + Best Practices
Development Tools (logger, profiler, debugger, docs)
Unit + Functional Testing Frameworks (LIME /
Open Source Communities
Who uses ysymfony/yui?
symfony is a cohesive and decoupled set of PHP
classes
symfony Platform
The symfony framework is based on the symfony
platform
symfony Framework
Model-View-Controller
Some people think frameworks are slow and
trap you in a box.
Performance?
symfony in features
MVC Design + Project/Application Structure
Cascading Configuration System (YAML -> PHP)
Environments – Dev, Prod, Test, QA, Staging
Flexible view layer – layouts, partials, components
Task/CLI System
Internationalization + Localization Support
Form / Widget / Validation System
Security – CSRF + XSS Protection + User Management
Caching – APC, Memcache, File, Database
Testing Framework – LIME Unit + Functional Testing
Make your choice based on the requirements of the project
Pick a framework or just a component
Symfony vs ?
Getting Started
pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.org
pear install symfony/symfony
mkdir ~/dev/ysfproject;
cd ~/dev/ysfproject
symfony generate:project ysfproject
symfony generate:app frontend
symfony generate:app frontend
symfony CLI + Tasks
sfEventDispatcher
sfPatternRouting and sfWebRequest are decoupled
« Anybody » can listen to any event
// sfPatternRouting$callback = array($this, ’filterParameters‘);$dispatcher->connect(’request.filter_parameters‘, $callback);
// sfWebRequest$event = new sfEvent($this, ‘request.filter_parameters’);$dispatcher->filter($event, $parameters);
application.log
application.throw_exception
context.load_factories
request.filter_parameters
user.change_culture
controller.page_not_found
response.filter_content
view.cache.filter_content
*.method_not_found
require '/home/y/share/pear/symfony/autoload/sfCoreAutoload.class.php';sfCoreAutoload::register();
$dispatcher = new sfEventDispatcher();
$routing = new sfPatternRouting($dispatcher);$routing->connect(new sfRoute('hello', '/hello/:name'));
$request = new sfWebRequest($dispatcher);$response = new sfWebResponse($dispatcher);
$content = 'Hello '.$request->getParameter('name', 'World');
$response->setContent($content);$response->send();
symfony Configuration
Based on YAML
Support for environments
prod, dev, test, qa, staging, ...
Dimension System
Allows easy customization of any configuration files and templates
Anything can be a dimension
Intl, Brand, Host, Data center
Dimensions are Flexible
Inheritance = Override only what you need to
Dimensions can be chained together
homepage: url: / param: { module: common, action: homepage }
item_get: url: /api/v1/item/:id param: { module: item, action: get} requirements: { id: ‘\d’ }
frontend/modules/common/actions/actions.class.php
class commonActions extends sfActions{ public function executeHomepage($request) { $this->templateFooVar = ‘Hello World’; }}
frontend/modules/common/templates/homepageSuccess.php
<?php echo $templateFooVar; ?>
symfony view layer
Actions can render different views, a partial, or a component
(think: same controller for ajax/full view)
View.yml
Configures css, js, meta, layout (app/module/action)
Layouts – Most web apps consist of full page and popup layout
A partial is a static template fragment
class SigninForm extends sfForm{ public function configure() { $this->setWidgets(array( 'username' => new sfWidgetFormInput(), 'password' => new sfWidgetFormInput(array('type' => 'password')), 'remember' => new sfWidgetFormInputCheckbox(), )); $this->setValidators(array( 'username' => new sfValidatorString(), 'password' => new sfValidatorString(), 'remember' => new sfValidatorBoolean(), )); $this->validatorSchema->setPostValidator(new UserValidator()); $this->widgetSchema->setNameFormat(’user[%s]'); }}
<form action=“<?php echo url_for(‘user/signin’);” method=“post”><?php echo $form; ?></form>
$this->form = new SigninForm();
if ($request->isMethod('post')){ $this->form->bind($request->getParameter('user')); if ($this->form->isValid()) { $values = $this->form->getValues(); $this->getUser()->signin($values['user']); }}
symfony / YUI
YUI integration is provided in the form of template helpers
AJAX
Buttons
Tabs
Overlays
Debug Toolbar Integration
Debugging Tools
Deployment Tools
Aggregate and minify stylesheets and javascripts
Rewrite templates, css, js for CDN (YCS)
Generate translations for configurations + templates + js
Aggregate core classes + hardcode paths + remove debug
Run lint, unit, functional tests
Deployment via rsync
LIME Unit Testing
./symfony test:unit
$t = new lime_test(9, new lime_output_color());
// create configuration$t->comment('check configuration');$frontendConfiguration = ProjectConfiguration::getApplicationConfiguration('frontend', 'test', true);$t->isa_ok($frontendConfiguration, 'frontendConfiguration', 'ProjectConfiguration::getApplicationConfiguration() returns a valid frontend application configuration instance.');
// check plugins enabled$t->comment('check application plugins');$t->is_deeply($frontendConfiguration->getPlugins(), array(1 => 'sfDoctrineGuardExtraPlugin', 2 => 'sfDoctrineGuardPlugin', 3 => 'sfDoctrineManagerPlugin', 4 => 'sfDoctrinePlugin', 5 => 'sfDoctrineViewCachePlugin', 6 => 'sfFacebookPlugin', 7 => 'sfFormExtraPlugin', 10 => 'sfTaskExtraPlugin', 11 => 'ysfOpenPlugin', 12 => 'ysfYUIPlugin'), 'frontendConfiguration->getPlugins() returns a valid list of application plugins.');
// create instance$t->comment('check context instance');$frontendContext = sfContext::createInstance($frontendConfiguration);$t->isa_ok($frontendContext, 'sfContext', 'sfContext::createInstance() returns a valid context instance from configuration.');
LIME Functional Testing
./symfony test:functional backend
$browser = new frontendTestFunctional(new sfBrowser());$browser->get('/')->
with('view_cache')->begin()-> isCached(false)-> end()->
with('user')->begin()-> isCulture('en')-> end()->
with('request')->begin()-> isParameter('module', 'stream')-> isParameter('action', 'activity')-> end()->
with('response')->begin()-> isStatusCode(200)-> isHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8')-> checkElement('style[type="text/css"]')-> checkElement('div#y-doc')-> checkElement('div.yui-skin-sam')-> checkElement('div#y-doc div#hd')-> checkElement('div#y-doc div#hd div#nav')-> checkElement('div#y-doc div#bd')-> checkElement('div#y-doc div#bd div#y-content')-> checkElement('div#y-doc div#ft')-> checkElement('script[type="text/javascript"]')->
end();
YUI Unit Testing
YUI({combine: true, timeout: 10000}).use("node", "console", "test",function (Y) { Y.namespace("example.test"); Y.example.test.AdvancedOptionsTestCase = new Y.Test.Case({ name: "Advanced Options Tests", _should: { fail: { testFail: true }, error: { testGenericError: true }, ignore : { testIgnore: true } }, testFail : function() { Y.Assert.fail("Something bad happened."); }, testGenericError : function() { throw new Error("Generic error"); }, testIgnore : function () { alert("You'll never see this."); } }); var r = new Y.Console({ verbose : true, newestOnTop : false }); r.render('#testLogger'); Y.Test.Runner.add(Y.example.test.AdvancedOptionsTestCase);
Y.Test.Runner.run();});
symfony Documentation
http://www.symfony-project.org/doc/
Practical symfony - Jobeet
The Definitive Guide to symfony
The symfony Reference Guide
symfony Forms in Action
Doctrine ORM for PHP
Cookbooks + Cheat sheets + Wiki
API Documentation
A set of 24 tutorials
Each tutorial is meant to last one hour, and explains the step by step development of a web application with symfony, from A to Z.
http://www.jobeet.org/
http://www.symfony-project.org/jobeet/1_2/
Forums
http://www.symfony-project.com/forum
IRC
irc.freenode.net/#symfony
Mailing List
symfony-users@googlegroups.com
Support
YUI Documentation
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/
128 Functional Examples
API Documentation
A Query Language for the Web
SELECT * FROM INTERNET
Thousands of web services that provide valuable data
Require developers to read documentation and form URLs/queries.
Data is isolated and can not be combined
Needs combining, tweaking, shaping even after it gets to the developer.
Before YQL
SQL-Like Language
Synonymous with Data access
Familiar to developers
Expressive enough to get the right data
Self Describing - show, desc table
Allows you to query, filter and join data across Web Services.
Y! Open Stack – YQL
YQL – Open TablesTwitter
Friendfeed
Wesabe
Whitepages
Zillow
On github - http://github.com/yql/yql-tables/
More than 275 functional examples
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/
YSlow + Performance Rules
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance
YUI Blog
http://yuiblog.com/
Mailing List @ Yahoo! Groups
Y! Developer Network – Documentation