What this book covers

Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Symfony, helps you understand the idea of packages and package management along with the installation of Symfony.

Chapter 2, The Request and Response Life Cycle, introduces you to basic Symfony concepts such as bundles, routing, twig, doctrine, and so on over the course of a request/response life cycle.

Chapter 3, Setting Up the Environment, shows you how to set up development, test, and deployment environments in AWS and set up Behat and Git for BDD and version control respectively.

Chapter 4, Using Behavior-Driven Development in Symfony, covers Behat and Mink and how to use them to create reliable projects.

Chapter 5, Business Logic, discusses the model layer and Doctrine thoroughly.

Chapter 6, Dashboard and Security, shows you authentication and authorization steps in a security checking process and how to create a control panel for our project using the Sonata project and its bundles. The FOSUserBundle will be explained as well.

Chapter 7, The Presentation Layer, discusses the Twig template engine and Bootstrap 3.x framework. We will see how to use a bundle to integrate Bootstrap into our templates.

Chapter 8, Project Review, reviews what we have created so far and optimizes the code further.

Chapter 9, Services and Service Containers, explains concepts such as Dependency Injection, Service Containers, and Services.

Chapter 10, Custom User Commands, walks you through the steps to create customized commands for Symfony's console.

Chapter 11, More about Dev, Test, and Prod Environments, is a short chapter about Symfony environments. We will see how different they are from each other, how we can customize them based on project requirements, and how to create our own environments with their own front controller.

Chapter 12, Caching in Symfony, talks about performance optimization and the usage of Varnish and Memcached in our project.