Chapters

27 Chapters | 3:13:54 |

01

Hello Layouts+ Setup!

7:30
02

Creating & Mapping Layouts

11:31
03

Adding Twig Blocks to your Dynamic Layout

4:33
04

Shared Layouts

7:25
05

Adding More Customized Blocks

5:16
06

Adding Lists: Value Type

9:58
07

Value Converter

8:50
08

Item View Template

6:27
09

Frontend Item View

7:41
10

Ajax Pagination & CSS/JS

6:43
11

Content Browser

9:02
12

Content Browser: Returning the Items

5:33
13

Value Loader + Preview Template

7:31
14

Contentful: Loading Data from an External CMS

8:02
15

Mapping a Layout to Contentful Pages

7:55
16

Building the Contentful Page

6:07
17

Customizing the Contentful Slugger

5:36
18

The Skills List Page + A Grid of Skills

7:36
19

Themes & Overriding Templates

5:19
20

Block Views & View Types

9:33
21

Deep Dive into Item Views

6:47
22

Prepending Config

3:55
23

Contentful Item Template

6:12
24

Block Views & Block Definitions

4:48
25

Custom Block View

7:45
26

Custom Item View Type

6:04
27

Block Plugins

10:15

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Netgen Layouts: Building Pages with Symfony

Unlock the power of CMS with Symfony in this tutorial, which explores how Netgen Layouts can dynamically rearrange pages.

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What PHP libraries does this tutorial use?

// composer.json
{
    "require": {
        "php": ">=8.1.0",
        "ext-ctype": "*",
        "ext-iconv": "*",
        "babdev/pagerfanta-bundle": "^3.7", // v3.7.0
        "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "^2.7", // 2.7.0
        "doctrine/doctrine-migrations-bundle": "^3.2", // 3.2.2
        "doctrine/orm": "^2.13", // 2.13.3
        "easycorp/easyadmin-bundle": "^4.4", // v4.4.1
        "netgen/layouts-contentful": "^1.3", // 1.3.2
        "netgen/layouts-standard": "^1.3", // 1.3.1
        "pagerfanta/doctrine-orm-adapter": "^3.6",
        "sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "^6.2", // v6.2.8
        "stof/doctrine-extensions-bundle": "^1.7", // v1.7.0
        "symfony/console": "5.4.*", // v5.4.14
        "symfony/dotenv": "5.4.*", // v5.4.5
        "symfony/flex": "^1.17|^2", // v2.2.3
        "symfony/framework-bundle": "5.4.*", // v5.4.14
        "symfony/monolog-bundle": "^3.0", // v3.8.0
        "symfony/proxy-manager-bridge": "5.4.*", // v5.4.6
        "symfony/runtime": "5.4.*", // v5.4.11
        "symfony/security-bundle": "5.4.*", // v5.4.11
        "symfony/twig-bundle": "5.4.*", // v5.4.8
        "symfony/ux-live-component": "^2.x-dev", // 2.x-dev
        "symfony/ux-twig-component": "^2.x-dev", // 2.x-dev
        "symfony/validator": "5.4.*", // v5.4.14
        "symfony/webpack-encore-bundle": "^1.15", // v1.16.0
        "symfony/yaml": "5.4.*", // v5.4.14
        "twig/extra-bundle": "^2.12|^3.0", // v3.4.0
        "twig/twig": "^2.12|^3.0" // v3.4.3
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "doctrine/doctrine-fixtures-bundle": "^3.4", // 3.4.2
        "symfony/debug-bundle": "5.4.*", // v5.4.11
        "symfony/maker-bundle": "^1.47", // v1.47.0
        "symfony/stopwatch": "5.4.*", // v5.4.13
        "symfony/web-profiler-bundle": "5.4.*", // v5.4.14
        "zenstruck/foundry": "^1.22" // v1.22.1
    }
}

Netgen Layouts is about having your 🎂 - i.e. any Symfony app - and eating it too... by allowing you to rearrange your pages and mix in dynamic content via an admin area. Yup, your Symfony app & Twig templates + the power of a CMS tacked into the side. And all of this is done in a gently way, without "taking over" your app.

In this tutorial, we'll go from zero to hero by installing Layouts into an existing Symfony app:

Installing & Setting up Layouts
Mapping a "Layout" to existing pages
Including your existing Twig blocks in your layout
Adding custom "value types" and "query types" so you can embed grids/lists of the custom content from your app
Customizing "item views": the templates used in grids/lists
Creating a "content browser" to manually select content from your app
Pulling content from a CMS - Contentful for our example
Theming! Powerful and simple way to override templates
Block Views: customizing how a block renders
Block Plugins: adding custom options to every block in the system

Layouts is fun: adding a new level of flexibility without changing how you build your app.

Next courses in the Symfony 5: Learn More Tricks section of the Symfony 5 Track!

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Johann 2 years ago

Yes! this is awesome! But a little problematic for me. I started a project with Symfony 6.1 and would really like to use Netgen Layouts for this project. I've found a dev version (1.4.x-dev) but nothing about a stable release. Does anybody know about a stable release, compatible with Symfony 6.1 (or 6.2 which will be released very soon)?

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Ivo Johann 2 years ago

Hi Johann,

It is coming very soon :) We are finalizing the 1.4 version (which support Symfony 6) and will release it when its ready, should happen in about 2-3 weeks. We will announce it on our newsletter and on our slack, feel free to join the community!

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Fabrice 2 years ago

Godness! I didn't know that! It looks really awesome! When do you plan to start this course?

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Victor SFCASTS Fabrice 2 years ago

Hey Fabrice,

We're actively working on it right now and plan to start releasing it in the middle of November, but it might be a bit delayed because we're also actively releasing 2 courses right now: Design Patterns and PHPUnit. November is a busy month with the SymfonyCon conference which might reflect our schedule. But we're want to release it this year ;)

Cheers!

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Netgen Layouts: Building Pages with Symfony

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Next courses in the Symfony 5: Learn More Tricks section of the Symfony 5 Track!

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