Develop bundle for Symfony ^4.0

Every time I have to create a shared Symfony bundle, I forgot how to structure the folders and files.

So here I put some usefull tips/link to speed up the development.

Structure

The first thing to do is creating a workable Symfony folder, using the instruction described in the download page of symfony. In this way I can test my bundle in a fresh real installation.

Create the space for your bundle

Next thing to do is create a folder in the root called “bundles” in order to have a folder that is “outside” the core files. Create the bundle inside called for example “GGGGinoRecentyBundle”

root
+---bundles
|   \---GGGGino
|       \---RecentyBudle
|           +---composer.json
|           +---.git
|           \---...
+---bin
+---config

Configure symfony to load your bundle

Prepare the autoloader to get your bundle

composer.json

{
    ...,
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "src/",
            "GGGGino\\RecentyBundle\\": "bundles/GGGGino/RecentyBundle/src"
        }
    },
    ...
}

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Load your bundle inside the symfony project.

Of course before load the bundle, create it.

bundles.php

<?php

return [
    // other bundles here

    GGGGino\RecentyBundle\GGGGinoRecentyBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

Bundle

Now you can use this skeleton, that is a very good starting place.

There are also some good tools to test, beautify you code.

• Travis-ci
• Scrutinizer-ci
• PHP-CS

Here some of good structured Bundle to take inspiration from

• GGGGino/SkuskuCartBundle
• 8p/EightPointsGuzzleBundle