Sonata Project Presentation

Thomas Rabaix

• Web architect @ Ekino
• Sonata Project Lead Dev
• Symfony 1 & 2 Expert
• Lean / Agile friendly
• Devops / Python / Go and PHP ;)
• twitter: th0masr / github: rande

Ekino

• 200 hundred people with digital innovation culture to serve users and business requirements.
  • Innovative Digital Prototype
  • Integrated Plateforme Service
  • Big Data & Data visualization
  • Internet of Things
  • Digital Performance
• Our technologies: Java, NodeJS, Python, PHP, etc ...
• Main Sponsor of the Sonata Project

A bit of history

• Started 4 years ago
  • No composer, no "best practices", "symfony reloaded"
  • Work from SF2 beta
• Primary target: Ecommerce solution
  • Fact, not so easy work
  • Not an editor
• Community Driven

Some numbers

• Used by 17% of Symfony's users
  • Symfony: 300K d/l last 30 days
  • AdminBundle: 50K d/l last 30 days
• ~10K commits / 2K forks
• Translated into more 15 languages

Website's requirements

AdminBundle

• The Bundle! available for 4 persistency layers
• Rich widgets: autocomplete, inline model creation, datepicker
• Full stack CRUD: export, mosaic view, audit, dashboard, preview, dynamic form, security
• Responsive Design
• Very Extensible

BlockBundle

• Breaks logic into blocks
• Handle cache management
• Reusability of block / Stateless services
• Used by the CMF project (They won an award !!!)
• No persistency storage

https://sonata-project.org/blog/2014/3/19/sonata-block-bundle-sfpot-march-2014

Block call

# layout.html.twig
{{ sonata_block_render({'type': 'sonata.product.block.similar_products'},  {
    'number': 4,
    'base_product_id': single_basket_element.productId
}) }}

PageBundle

• Persistency on top of BlockBundle
• Store Page with Blocks
• Role Editor (Page) Vs Role User (Snapshot)
• Compose page with a block editor
• Encapsulate default MVC actions

Templates configuration

# https://github.com/sonata-project/sandbox/blob/f6264c2/app/config/sonata/sonata_page.yml#L50-L78
path: 'ApplicationSonataPageBundle::demo_layout.html.twig'
name: 'default'
containers:
     header: { name: Header }
     content_top: {name: Top content }
     content: { name: Main content }
     content_bottom: { name: Bottom content }
     footer: {name: Footer }
matrix:
     layout: |
         HHHHHHHH
         TTTTTTTT
         CCCCCCCC
         BBBBBBBB
         FFFFFFFF
     mapping:
         H: header
         T: content_top
         C: content
         B: content_bottom
         F: footer

Other PageBundle's Features

• Multi Site based on domain name and path
• Page versionning with snapshots
• allows custom CSS/JS per page
• Can define service to control the page rendering behavior

MediaBundle

• Metadata storage
• Abstracted Filesystem with Gaufrette (ftp, s3, fs, etc ..)
• Media controlled by providers: Youtube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, File, Image and your own …
• Pixlr integration for image editing
• Thumbnail generation, LiipImagine Integration
• Classification: folder, context