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Hey @Jörg Daniel Fluck!

Hmm, indeed! It looks like this shortcut is gone now! Thanks for letting us know (this tutorial is... unfortunately... getting a little old). There IS a a bin/console make:controller command from MakerBundle you can use to generate controllers, however. I hope that helps :).

Cheers!

Yo Boran,

Try to update PhpStorm to the latest version, then upgrade Symfony Plugin and restart PhpStorm - it should help. Also, please, make sure you enable Symfony Plugin in preferences and paths you have there are correct according to your Symfony directory structure.

Cheers!

Hey Michael O.

That's weird, could you double check that you imported the right @Route class? Another thing that may help is to re-index your project through PHPStorm, inside Symfony plugin settings, click on the "Clear index" button

Cheers!

Hi Diego, sorry late reply but yeah I have done all of these steps and all of the extra steps (invalidating cache, cleared index, reinstall all plugins and made sure the correct @Route class is used (Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route). Have setup the paths for Symfony plugin for 5.1 as follows:

Translation Root Path: ./var/cache/dev/translations/
App Directory: ./config/
Web Directory: ./public/

It feels as though the plugin is still trying to use the FrameworkBundle @Route in some way as when I start typing 'me' for method in the controller annotations, tab completion tries to insert @Method(""). Still no suggestions when ctrl+space while the caret is in the below position:

/**
* @Route("test", name="test_route", <caret>)
*
*/

Hey Michael O.!

Hmmm. I think you may have discovered an issue with the "PHP Annotations" plugin! Because, this no longer works for me either. I've opened an issue about it - https://github.com/Haehnchen/idea-php-annotation-plugin/issues/205

The good thing is that (at least for me) all other annotations (e.g. @ORM\Column) seem to work just fine. This seems to only affect @Route.

Cheers!

Hi Ryan

Cheers, at least happy(ish) that someone can reproduce!

One thing though, It seems that its not just the @Route annotation not working, but any annotation outside the Entity, e.g. @Security/@ParamConverter etc.

Hey Steve,

Are you in dev or prod Symfony environment? It's always a good idea to try to clear the cache first, it should help in most cases. To clear the cache, run:

$ bin/console cache:clear

By default it clears the cache for environment set in .env, see APP_ENV. But you can pass --env=prod if in case you want to clear the cache in specific environment (or change "prod" to any env you need). Or you can just remove the cache folder manually, e.g. "rm -rf var/cache/dev" for removing the dev cache.

Does clearing the cache help you? Or you still have this problem with 404 error? If still the same 404 - I'd recommend you to debug your routes with

$ bin/console debug:router

Do you see that "/movies/new" route there? probably you made a typo in that path?

Cheers!

Hi Victor, thanks for the response.

I'm bootstrapping in from zero with this course, and there's been no mention so far of dev/prod, but according to output below I'm in dev.

Console doesn't work from PHP 7.3, and there's no bin directory in this project, but I presume you mean app/console. I ran that with PHP 7.2 to clear the cache, but it didn't fix the 404 error. Manually purging app/cache didn't either.

Debugging the route as you described shows the following:

[me@mac start]$ /Applications/DevDesktop/php7_2_x64/bin/php app/console debug:router | grep movies<br />movies_new ANY ANY ANY /movies/new

Doesn't appear to be a typo, and it still 404's. Here's a copy and paste of the code (sorry for the formatting, the form mangles the indents and line spacing on copy and paste and there's no preview mode)

`
namespace AppBundle\Controller;

use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;

class MovieController extends Controller
{
/**

• @Route("/movies/new", name="movies_new")
  */
  public function newAction()
  {
  return $this->render('movie/new.html.twig', array());
  }
  }`

Hey Steve,

Ah, yes, then you should be in dev mode, especially if you see Symfony Web Debug Toolbar below the page. But that's really weird... So, the "debug:router" console command does show that you have "movies_new" route, and it does have "/movies/new" URL. So, it should not be a 404 error. Are you sure you're calling the right host in the browser? Probably you have a several projects spinning on your computer? Make sure that your web server is started, and that the URL in your browser: both host and port - are match the host and port in your browser.

Btw, do you see a Symfony 404 error or webserver's 404 error? Symfony's 404 error should be styled nicely and contains Symfony Web Debug Toolbar at the bottom with a lot of useful info. Probably you just forgot to start your web server? Does the homepage works for you or you also see 404 error when open "/app/example" homepage route?

I see you downloaded the course code and started from start/ directory, right? Did you do "composer install" or "composer update" to install dependencies? In newer version of Symfony "use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;" annotation does not work and should be replaced with "use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;" instead. Probably it's worth to try and see if it helps.

Cheers!

Thanks Victor. I'm at my wits' end here; I can't get it working.

I am sure that the webserver is running and I'm hitting the right port. I stopped all services and moved it to port 8005 just to make sure it wasn't hitting some other unknown process on port 8000; accessing localhost:8005/ in the browser with the server off results in the browser's "unable to connect to server" message, which is right. I then start the server and hit it again, and I get the 404, from PHP directly (not Symfony). The terminal output shows the 404s being generated:

<br />[slinberg@fifteen start]$ /Applications/DevDesktop/php7_2_x64/bin/php -S localhost:8005<br />PHP 7.2.22 Development Server started at Wed May 13 20:07:34 2020<br />Listening on http://localhost:8005<br />Document root is /Users/slinberg/Sites/code-phpstorm/start<br />Press Ctrl-C to quit.<br />[Wed May 13 20:07:40 2020] ::1:49971 [404]: / - No such file or directory<br />[Wed May 13 20:07:40 2020] ::1:49972 [404]: /favicon.ico - No such file or directory<br />[Wed May 13 20:07:51 2020] ::1:49974 [404]: /movies/new - No such file or directory<br />

I get the same error on "/" - "app/example" - as I do for "/movies/new" or any other random nonsense path I enter. The browser shows:

<br />Not Found<br />The requested resource /movies/new was not found on this server.

I did "composer install" initially, but ran "composer update" just now and it updated a lot of packages. I cleared the cache and tried again, but it didn't change the result. I also changed the Sensio line to Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route as you described, same results. I've run the server with PHP 7.2 and 7.4, same results.

I think I'm just going to scrap everything and start over, but this is pretty frustrating. Can you confirm that the current code download works correctly for you starting with a clean install?

OK, I figured it out. It doesn't work if you start the webserver with "php -S localhost:8000". It only works if you start it with "php app/console server:run".

This isn't mentioned in the video or transcript. The end of the first video just says that the server is already running, but not how it was started.

Hey Steve,

Ah, yes, now I see! Hm, we're sorry for confusing you! Yeah, probably for people who does not use Symfony it's not obvious, I'll think how we can improve this, probably add some notes.

Well, with PHP web server it would work too, but you need to specify docroot like:

php -S localhost:8005 -t web/

In Symfony version we use in this course doc root should be web/ directory inside your project dir.

Sorry I didn't noticed that you start the PHP webserver different :/

Cheers!

Hi Victor. Maybe as I continue to go through this I'll trip across other things that are non-obvious to someone without a strong prior background in Symfony. I'll let you know as I go of course.

I did wonder if it might be related to the webroot path, but I tried just now out of curiosity to start the webserver with just PHP and it's still 404'ing:

<br />[slinberg@fifteen start]$ /Applications/DevDesktop/php7_2_x64/bin/php -S localhost:8005 -t web<br />PHP 7.2.22 Development Server started at Thu May 14 09:13:50 2020<br />Listening on http://localhost:8005<br />Document root is /Users/slinberg/Sites/code-phpstorm/start/web<br />Press Ctrl-C to quit.<br />[Thu May 14 09:14:03 2020] ::1:52801 [404]: /movies/new - No such file or directory<br />^C

I also tried starting php within the "web" directory itself without the -t directive and it still also didn't work. I'm glad to hear that it SHOULD - in production I'll be running nginx and I don't think I want to start a server either via PHP or Symfony - but though it's not urgent at this point I would like to figure out what's wrong. Any other ideas?

Hey Steve!

Yes, it would be much appreciated, thank you!

Yeah, it's not so easy with built-in PHP web server, you have to specify the index file. By default, it works with index.php, but if your front controller has a different name - app.php in our case - you have to pass it explicitly. So, if you run the server with:

$ php -S localhost:8005 -t web/

Try http://localhost:8005/app.php/movies/new or http://localhost:8005/app.php/app/example - it should work this way. That's why using Symfony built-in web server is more convenient. However, even Symfony built-in web server is not recommended lately. Nowadays Symfony community has even better solution called Symfony CLI (or Symfony local web server) - see https://symfony.com/doc/cur... - it even allow you using HTTPS out of the box, but you need to install certs first. And yes, you can use it not only for Symfony projects. If you're interested - read the docs. We use it in all our recent tutorials.

Cheers!

Thanks Victor, getting back to this today. You're right that starting the server with PHP and then going through the path /app.php/movies/new works 👍 It just displays a 500 internal server error (expected at this point in the course, so it's OK), but of course without the nice symfony wrapper that actually shows the error and related information. In any event, I'm planning to run production under nginx, so I guess I don't need to lean into this too hard... but it seems preferable to run dev at least with the symfony server for the toolbar, which I assume you can't get any other way?

Hey Steve,

That's because app.php front controller is for prod mode. If you want to run the website in dev mode, run /app_dev.php/movies/new instead. On your production, you will need to point your Nginx web server to exactly "app.php". Actually, for security reasons, it's recommended to remove all front controllers from web/ dir except the app.php.

Btw, Symfony version that is used in this course is old. The new Symfony version has only one front controller called index.php and allow you to switch Symfony env with environment variables.

Cheers!

Hey sitegeist

That's correct! Thanks for sharing it :)

Cheers!

Hey Craig!

Try using "Alt + Insert" it should do the trick
Also if you open your settings and serach for "keymap" you will find all the shortcuts defined and you can even create your owns!

Have a nice day!

Hey Farnoosh,

For Apple users, by default, "Code Generate" could be called with Command + N (or Ctrl + Enter as fallback), but it really depends. However, you can totally change it in PhpStorm settings: "PhpStorm" -> "Preferences" -> "Keymap". Also, on the first launch you could choose a different keyboard tempalte (keymap), for example, to match NetBeans IDE keyboard shortcuts, etc. And I suppose it could even depend on PhpStorm's version :)

Cheers!

that would be a whole different topic! and way to vast to really consider making a screencast series.
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 <- check that url, its a great git guide.