structure application in symfony 2

Question

I am building a online store with symfony 2.1. Basically I have frontend section from where users of my site can view, add items and backend section for admin users to manage the entire site. Frontend and backend section will have different template but the database models (Doctrine) are same for both.

How do i structure my application?

Previously I was using symfony 1.4 where I could just create frontend apps and backend apps. Symfony 2 deals with bundles. Should I create 2 bundles one for frontend and one for backend? Creating such structure, how will be able to share models between them.

Please suggest me some structure for my application.

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

I suggest you going without bundles and using subnamespaces for the backend stuff:

Vendor\Controller\UserController — the frontend user controller,
Vendor\Controller\Backend\UserController — the backend user controller.

Templates will be subnamespaced also:

app/Resources/views/User/view.html.twig,
app/Resources/views/Backend/User/view.html.twig.

You can refer to subnamespaced templates from other templates as:

{% include ':Backend\User:someTemplate.html.twig' %}

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 13 '12 at 11:57

As symfony2 relies on namespaces, you can share classes between them easily.

Let's say you defined your entities in FrontendBundle, they will be like:

namespace Acme\FrontendBundle\Entity;

/** @ORM annotations stuff */
class MyEntity
{

    protected $id;

    ...

}

You can then refer to them either by creating from scratch:

$newEntity = new \Acme\FrontendBundle\Entity\MyEntity();

or by importing them via use:

namespace Acme\BackendBundle\Controller;

use Acme\FrontendBundle\Entity\MyEntity;

class AdminController extends Controller
{

    public someAction()
    { 

        $newEntity = new MyEntity();

    }

}

Doctrine repositories use a slightly different notation:

$this-> getDoctrine()
    -> getEntityManager()
    -> getRepository('FrontendBundle:MyEntity')
    -> findAll();

being it NameBundle:EntityName.

Refer to symfony best practices to get a better clue!

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 13 '12 at 14:03

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As the previous answers show, there is no single best approach. I find it useful to have three bundles. A CoreBundle containing the entities along with other shared functionality and then Frontend/Backend bundles sitting on top of the core bundle. But again, there is no single best approach.

answered Sep 13 '12 at 14:03

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three bundles, src/Vendor/BackendBundle,src/Vendor/FrontendBundle and src/Vendor/SharedBundle. SharedBundle holds the entities and other shared parts betweeen the FrontendBundle and BackendBundle. Is this what you meant? – sonam Sep 14 '12 at 12:56

structure application in symfony 2

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