…function called authenticateUser inside RegisterController. Normally, authentication happens automatically, but we can also trigger it manually: // src/Yoda/UserBundle/Entity/Controller/RegisterController.php // ... use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\UsernamePasswordToken; private function authenticateUser(User $user) { } This code might look strange, and I don’t…

… Copy the template code from the docs and create the login.html.twig file: {# src/Yoda/UserBundle/Resources/views/Security/login.html.twig #} {% if error %} {% endif %} If you want to control the URL the user is redirected…

…s get to work. Over the next hour, we’re going to take things to the next level, aiming at some of the most difficult areas of Symfony, like security, forms, and some serious Doctrine topics. Some of this stuff will look pretty tough at…

…every template, you have access to a variable called app. This has a bunch of useful things on it, like the request, the security context, the User object, and the session: It's actually an object called GlobalVariables, which you can check out yourself. So…

…method for installing bundles. Generating the User Entity¶ Let’s forget about security for a second and pretend that all we care about is creating a User entity that is stored in the database. Let’s create a new bundle called UserBundle to house the…

…Here, you can see blog posts that are categorized by each version. This is a collection of blog posts about what's new in Symfony 5.1, like the new security system. And... here are posts about what's new in Symfony 5.3, or…

…the routing layer happens! That's RouterListener. You can also see Firewall: this is where authentication takes place. Security is a complex system... so being able to see a bit about what happens inside of it is pretty cool. At some point... it calls a…

…files left. Open account/index.html.twig: Yep, this has a link tag to the first... and in security/login.html.twig, here's the other: Oh, and we also include login.css from register.html.twig: This is kind of a tricky situation.... because…

… Inside SecurityBundle, look at DependencyInjection and open SecurityExtension.php. This class loads several XML files that provide all of the services for this bundle. Inside the Resources/config/ directory, open security.xml. Around line 136... yep! You'll see the services that our new service…

…more level of difficulty: it's time to contribute new code with a pull request. Let's look at an issue I found: #27835. This comes from the Security component. Let me give you some background: if you try to access a protected page as…

…supported in version 4.0. You should rename or alias security.user_password_encoder.generic to ... long class name... UserPasswordEncoder instead. Um... what????? This is saying that somewhere, we are type-hinting an argument with Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Encoder\UserPasswordEncoder... but there is no…

…login page... which has just a little bit of its own JavaScript: a toggleable message and an error if you get crazy and type a super-long username. Open up the template: app/Resources/FOSUserBundle/views/Security/login.html.twig. Yep, it has a script…

…use the micro instance size, and just use the default settings on the next screens. For the security group, I'm going to select a group I already created: "Web Access Testing." The important thing is to allow port 22 for SSH and ports 80…

…I just make something up, like journey and put a dino_count of 10 under it: When we refresh, we get a huge error! And it says it found valid namespaces for framework, security, twig, monolog, blah blah blah. Hey, those are the root keys…

…secrets management Auto-validation The new PHP 7.4 "preload" file Using "migrate_from" to migrate your hashed passwords for max security bin/console lint:container And these are just my favorite features (see Symfony.com 4.4/5.0 Features Blog for even more…

…you'll learn how to: Install & setup FOSUserBundle Understanding and configuring security Using your own base layout Overriding templates Customizing and extending the forms Removing the username field entirely Updating any text via translations Creating an event subscriber to do things before/after registration (or…

…we're attacking the hard stuff: Using a serializer Token Authentication System (Silex's security system) Hypermedia versus media The HAL hypermedia type The HATEOAS PHP library The HAL Browser Embedding resources (versus adding links) Tricks with Behat for testing API's Pagination and filtering…

…bundle, and with good reason. It comes packed with features for login, registration, forgot password and a lot more. But it's also a big tool, and learning to master it will go a long way to making the security system in your application great.

…I'll start running symfony console, which is the same thing. Thanks to the new bundle, we have a ton of commands that start with make! Commands for generating a security system, making a controller, generating doctrine entities to talk to the database, forms, listeners…

…double-check our user was added correctly, run: symfony console dbal:run-sql 'select * from user' Nice, here he is! But hmm... we have a serious security issue here... don't worry, we'll fix it soon... but can you guess what it is? Next…