Symfony3 is coming soon and with it a handful of wonderful changes and restructuring to the core directory structure of a symfony app.
The new directory structure has a number of benefits, all of which are minor and may require minimal changes to your workflow.
PHPUnit
phpunit can now be run from the project root without having to explicitly specify the path of the configuration file.
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# Symfony2 phpunit -c app/phpunit.xml # Symfony3 (no need to specify the configuration file location) phpunit |
Binary Executables
All binary executable files are now all located in a single location – the bin directory.
This simplifies things also so on a *NIX machine you can configure your $PATH to simplify calling repeatable commands.
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# you can update your `PATH` to include the `bin` directory PATH="./bin:$PATH" # From your project root you can now run executables like so: console symfony_requirements doctrine # else with no `PATH` update bin/console bin/symfony_requirements bin/doctrine |
A new /var directory
The new /var directory contains the files to which the system writes data to during the course of its operation; this replaces/moves cache and logs from the app directory.
This also makes it easier to add permissions, the entire /var directory should be writable by your webserver (apache, nginx, etc).
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# default symfony3 `var` directory var/bootstrap.php.cache var/cache var/logs |
Symfony requirements check
Running symfony_requirements will output mandatory & optional environment configurations.
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cd /path/to/my_app symfony_requirements |
Credit
Most of the credit for this post belongs to justAnil @ StackOverflow for his amazing write-up.
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Symfony3 is Coming | JAKE LITWICKI · August 4, 2015 at 4:10 pm
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