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Symfony & PHP Mastery: Build a Social Web App

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Overview

Learn Symfony with PHP 8 by building a Twitter-style social media app using Doctrine, Twig & Tailwind CSS.

What you'll learn:
  • Build a fully functional Twitter-like social media platform from scratch
  • Master Symfony Framework for robust web application development
  • Harness the power of modern PHP 8 features
  • Create responsive and sleek UIs with Tailwind CSS
  • Implement advanced features: user authentication, likes, follows, and more
  • Learn best practices for routing, controllers, and Twig templating
  • Manage databases efficiently with Doctrine ORM
  • Gain hands-on experience with Symfony's dependency injection system
  • Develop real-world, job-ready PHP and Symfony skills

Go beyond tutorials. Build a real Symfony application from the ground up.

Symfony is one of the most powerful and flexible PHP frameworks in the world — used by companies like Spotify, BlaBlaCar, and Trivago. In this hands-on course, you’ll master Symfony with modern PHP 8 by building a Twitter-inspired social media platform that’s fully functional, deployable, and portfolio-ready.

We start from zero — setting up your environment and walking through Symfony’s structure — and quickly move to building real features:

  • Routing & Controllers for clean, organized code

  • Twig Templates for dynamic, reusable user interfaces

  • Doctrine ORM for efficient database handling

  • Tailwind CSS for beautiful, responsive styling

  • User Authentication & Security with Symfony best practices

  • Dependency Injection for scalable, maintainable code

  • Interactive features like likes, follows, and user profiles

You’ll gain production-ready skills while creating a project you can actually show to employers or clients. This is not a set of disconnected code snippets — it’s a full application, built step-by-step, with clear explanations for every concept.

Who’s this for?

  • PHP developers ready to master Symfony

  • Full-stack devs looking to strengthen backend skills

  • Anyone with basic PHP knowledge wanting to build real-world apps

By the end, you’ll have mastered the Symfony workflow from setup to deployment — and have a social web app to prove it.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Setting up for Windows!
  • Setting up for Mac!
  • Symfony 101
  • Databases and Doctrine ORM
  • Forms
  • Styling The Application
  • Database Relations in Doctrine
  • Comments Feature - Working with One to Many
  • Authentication & Authorization
  • User Registration & Verification
  • User Profiles, Likes, Following Features
  • More Features and Complex Database Queries
  • File Uploads
  • Services, Service Container & Dependency Injection
  • Course Roundup

Taught by

Piotr Jura | 73,000+ Students

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4.6 rating at Udemy based on 1029 ratings

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