Speaker: Ryan Weaver -- @weaverryan https://twitter.com/weaverryan

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/weaverryan/the-wonderful-world-of-symfony-components

Wonderful World of Symfony Components and Composer

Sidebar

Symfony is made up of 23 components
Available in composer

Life Before Components

Hard to share between projects
Hard to autoload files
Dependencies?
How to store files in project?

Issues:

PHP is fragmented

Fragmentation

More information we have to know
Difficult to hire
Disjointed forums, Stack Overflow
No interoperability

Components are shared across all of PHP

Act 1
- Make Sharing Sexy
  - PHP-FIG (United Nations of PHP)
  - The problem of Autoloading
    - SF1 autoloader doesn't know where the ZF1 classes are
    - every framework has its own autoloader
  - PSR-0 Class Naming Conventions
  - Managing Vendors
    - Composer
      - Add composer.json
      - Run composer.phar (install)
      - Composer also provides an autoloader
Act 2
- Your friendly, neighborhood SF components
  - Just refer to the slide. SRSLY.
    - HttpFoundation
      - symfony/http-foundation
    - HttpKernel
      - symfony/http-kernel
    - EventDispatcher
      - symfony/event-dispatcher
    - Routing
      - symfony/routing
  - Level 5
    - Framework
  - Additional libraries
    - Process
      - symfony/process
    - Finder
      - symfony/finder
    - Filesystem
      - symfony/filesystem
    - Console
      - symfony/console
    - DomCrawler
      - symfony/domcrawler
    - CssCrawler
      - symfony/csscrawler
    - Config
      - symfony/config
    - Validator
      - symfony/validator

How do we find libraries?

Packagist
Github