Getting Started with Symfony 5.x

The leading PHP framework to create websites and web applications. Built on top of the Symfony Components

Default Page of Symfony 5 with symfony/skeleton

Technical Requirements

• Install PHP 7.2.5 or higher and these PHP extensions (which are installed and enabled by default in most PHP 7 installations).
• Install Composer, which is used to install PHP packages.
• Installing Symfony CLI

Installing Symfony CLI

For linux, you can use the following commain to install symfony CLI:

wget https://get.symfony.com/cli/installer -O — | bash

Then you can run the following command to run symfony command directly.

mv /home/{username}/.symfony/bin/symfony /usr/local/bin/symfony

Now you can run the symfony command to verify:

Check system requirements

You can run the following command to check the system requirements:

symfony check:requirements

Verify Composer

To start with symfony we need to install the composer first. You can use the above mentioned link to install composer. In present example, we are using Linux Ubuntu 20.04

Create symfony project

To create a symfony 5 project, you need to run the following command which will not include the extra dependency.

composer create-project symfony/skeleton symfony

After the command you need to move inside the folder:

cd symfony/

To run the symfony project, you can install the following command

symfony serve

References

Symfony current Documentation

Composer

Download Symfony Framework and Components