Symfony Minimal Distribution

This is the minimal Symfony distribution.

It only contains the following bundles:

• FrameworkBundle
• MonologBundle
• TwigBundle
• WebDebugBundle in dev-environment

It only contains one configuration file at app/config/config.yml that is parameterized by a environment variables from the phpdotenv file .env that you need to create in the project root.

This file contains environment variables:

SYMFONY_ENV=dev
SYMFONY_DEBUG=1
SYMFONY__SECRET=abcdefg
SYMFONY__MONOLOG_ACTION_LEVEL=debug

Blog post explaining the reasoning for this approach:

• http://whitewashing.de/2014/10/26/symfony_all_the_things_web.html

PHP built-in web server using app/console server:[run|start]

You need to modify the web/index.php file by adding Dotenv::makeMutable(); before the call to Dotenv::load():

<?php

require_once __DIR__ . "/../vendor/autoload.php";
require_once __DIR__ . "/../app/AppKernel.php";

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

Dotenv::load(__DIR__ . '/../');
Dotenv::makeMutable();

$request = Request::createFromGlobals();
$kernel = new AppKernel($_SERVER['SYMFONY_ENV'], (bool)$_SERVER['SYMFONY_DEBUG']);
$response = $kernel->handle($request);
$response->send();
$kernel->terminate($request, $response);