Course Information
Course Overview
Learn Symfony with PHP 8 by building a Twitter-style social media app using Doctrine, Twig & Tailwind CSS.
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.
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 116 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Setting up for Windows!
- Section 3 Setting up for Mac!
- Section 4 Symfony 101
- Section 5 Databases and Doctrine ORM
- Section 6 Forms
- Section 7 Styling The Application
- Section 8 Database Relations in Doctrine
- Section 9 Comments Feature - Working with One to Many
- Section 10 Authentication & Authorization
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
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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PPedro Ferreira
Le cours est très complet avec de bons exemples et une belle couverture des possibilités qu'offre Symfony. J'aurais apprécié éventuellement un chapitre sur les tests unitaires ainsi qu'un autre sur les traductions, mais c'est déjà super ainsi. Merci beaucoup !
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HHamed Haghi
The course was good but elementary; I expected something more complicated
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MMerel van Empel
De video's zijn kort genoeg om er niet tegenop te zien (niet intimiderend lang). De gesproken tekst is langzaam genoeg om het mee te krijgen wanneer je gedachten een beetje afdwalen, maar niet te langzaam zodat je afgeleid raakt. Het enige dat ik erop kan aanmerken is dat het zware accent van de spreker soms lastig te volgen is. Maar de ondertiteling helpt daarbij.
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ddev simsek
could engage more