Installation
There are four ways to install the Symfony framework:
- Download the archive file in the root of our project and unpack it there
- Clone the project from GitHub
- Use the Symfony installer tool
- Use Composer to install it for us
The easiest way is to download the Symfony installer and make it publicly accessible via the following commands:
$ sudo curl -LsS https://symfony.com/installer -o /usr/local/bin/symfony $ sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/symfony
Now create a new project simply by running the following command:
$ symfony new mava
As this command shows, it will ask the Symfony installer to create a new folder in the current path called
mava, and when you hit enter, you will see that the Symfony source code will be downloaded to that folder:
Note
If you don't mention a version number or branch name in the installer command, it downloads and installs the latest stable version of Symfony.
In the list of things that we can do after installation is running the application immediately, without installing a virtual host. Thanks to the PHP built-in web server, we can run it via Symfony's console and browse the mava app at port 8000 on localhost:
$ bin/console server:run
The following screenshot shows how http://localhost:8000 looks like in your favourite browser:
Tip
Downloading the example code
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