Articles tagged #symfony
6 Rules of thumb to build blazing fast web server applications
This post highlights 6 important rules to keep in mind when developing performant web applications: avoid premature optimization, do the minimum required work, defer non-critical tasks, leverage caching, avoid N+1 queries, and design for horizontal scaling. Following these guidelines will help you write efficient code from the start and build apps ready to handle growth.
Symfony, edit the Response globally using the Kernel Response event
The Symfony HttpKernel Component allows interacting with the response generation through events. The Kernel Response event permits modifying the response before sending it out. Two examples show how to use it to add custom headers and cookies without touching controller logic.
Transparent pixel response with Symfony, how to track email opening
This blog post explains how to implement email open tracking in Symfony using a transparent tracking pixel. It provides code examples for generating a tracking image response and handling the tracking logic in a controller.
Write a console application using Symfony and Pimple
This article shows how to build a simple command line application using the Symfony Console component and Pimple dependency injection container. It provides a step-by-step guide on structuring the code, defining services, configuring parameters and wiring everything together to create a executable console app.
Integrating Twig.js and BazingaJsTranslationBundle
The post explains how to integrate twig.js with BazingaJsTranslationBundle to handle translations consistently between PHP and JavaScript. It shows how to build a custom Twig extension to translate strings with the Bazinga Translator object and handle differences in parameter formatting.
Symfony security: authentication made simple (well, maybe!)
This post collects resources and provides a graph to understand how Symfony authentication works behind the scenes, from the initial request to the final authenticated token. It clarifies the relationships between key classes like firewall, authentication provider and authentication listener.