Chapters

36 Chapters | 1:50:44 |

01

Introduction

0:44
02

Security Fundamentals

3:47
03

Authorization with Access Control

2:08
04

Creating a Login Form (Part 1)

4:46
05

Creating a Login Form (Part 2)

3:57
06

Logging Out and Cleaning Up

5:03
07

Twig Security and IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY

2:41
08

Denying Access: AccessDeniedException

4:23
09

Entity Security

4:32
10

Saving Users

3:37
11

Adding Dynamic Roles to each User

4:56
12

Repository Security

4:20
13

Doctrine’s QueryBuilder

2:25
14

The UserProvider: Custom Logic to Load Security Users

3:15
15

User Serialization

2:16
16

Registration Form

3:11
17

Form Rendering

4:38
18

Using More Fields: email and repeated

2:31
19

Handling Form Submissions

4:22
20

Form: Default Data

2:10
21

Cleaning up with a plainPassword Field

1:34
22

Using an External Form Type Class

2:40
23

Registration Validation

3:36
24

Server-Side Validation

4:18
25

Adding a Flash Message

1:35
26

Automatically Authenticating after Registration

0:55
27

Functional Testing

5:04
28

Testing Forms

3:21
29

Controlling Data / Fixtures in a Test

3:23
30

More about Container, the “doctrine” Service and the Entity Manager

1:54
31

After-dinner Mint

3:35
32

Security: Creating Roles and Role Hierarchies

2:50
33

Switching Users / Impersonation

1:09
34

Whitelisting: Securing all Pages, except a few

2:15
35

Accessing the User

1:09
36

Remember Me Functionality

1:44

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Adding a Flash Message¶

After registration, let’s make the new user feel loved by giving them a big happy success message! Symfony has a feature called flash messages, which is perfect for this. A flash is a message that we set to the session, but that disappears after we access it exactly one time.

After registration, grab the session object from the request and get an object called a “flash bag”. Set a message on it using add:

// src/Yoda/UserBundle/Entity/Controller/RegisterController.php
// ...

if ($form->isValid()) {
    // .. code that saves the user

    $request->getSession()
        ->getFlashBag()
        ->add('success', 'Welcome to the Death Star, have a magical day!')
    ;

    $url = $this->generateUrl('event');

    return $this->redirect($url);
}

Rendering a Flash Message¶

That’s it! Now, if a flash message exists, we just need to print it on the page. Let’s do that in base.html.twig. The session object is available via app.session. Use it to check to see if we have any success flash messages. If we do, let’s print the messages inside a styled container. You’ll typically only have one message at a time, but the flash bag is flexible enough to store any number:

{# app/Resources/views/base.html.twig #}

<body>
    {% if app.session.flashBag.has('success') %}
        <div class="alert alert-success">
            {% for msg in app.session.flashBag.get('success') %}
                {{ msg }}
            {% endfor %}
        </div>
    {% endif %}

    <!-- ... -->

The success key is just something I made up. With this setup, whenever we need to show a happy message, we just need to set a success flash message and it’ll show up here!

Let’s test it out. We register, the flash message is set, and then it’s displayed after the redirect. Nice!

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What PHP libraries does this tutorial use?

// composer.json
{
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.3.3",
        "symfony/symfony": "~2.4", // v2.4.2
        "doctrine/orm": "~2.2,>=2.2.3", // v2.4.2
        "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "~1.2", // v1.2.0
        "twig/extensions": "~1.0", // v1.0.1
        "symfony/assetic-bundle": "~2.3", // v2.3.0
        "symfony/swiftmailer-bundle": "~2.3", // v2.3.5
        "symfony/monolog-bundle": "~2.4", // v2.5.0
        "sensio/distribution-bundle": "~2.3", // v2.3.4
        "sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "~3.0", // v3.0.0
        "sensio/generator-bundle": "~2.3", // v2.3.4
        "incenteev/composer-parameter-handler": "~2.0", // v2.1.0
        "doctrine/doctrine-fixtures-bundle": "~2.2.0", // v2.2.0
        "ircmaxell/password-compat": "~1.0.3", // 1.0.3
        "phpunit/phpunit": "~4.1" // 4.1.0
    }
}