[1/4] Symfony 3 Contact Form - Beginner Friendly Symfony 3

In my experience, getting started is the hardest part. It's even harder to get started if you're not quite sure where to begin. There's nothing worse than sitting down at your keyboard, eager to get started learning something new, but slowly losing the will to live as tasks you already know how to do with your eyes shut suddenly seem overwhelming and overly complex.

The advice I often see given to those new to Symfony, or Laravel, or Rails, or Django, (or any of the many, many others) is to try a bunch of different frameworks, and maybe different languages, and see which one feels the best to you. Every framework is designed to make your life as a developer that much easier. They solve a wide range of common problems in a (hopefully) well documented manner.

I like this advice. I think it's sound, and it's the way I found, and began learning Symfony.

Now, there's a lot of 'stuff' that Symfony offers you. If you try to use all of it in your first project then you may very well run away and never look back.

In this series we are going to start by building up a Contact Form.

This may seem like a really easy project, and if it does, then maybe this course is not the right one for you. The aim here is not to learn how to make a contact form with PHP. The aim is to see how a contact form might be implemented when using the Symfony framework.

In creating this contact form we will explore many of things you would normally use when working with Symfony:

* Controllers
* Forms
* Twig (templates)
* Routing
* The development environment (`app_dev`)

Where this tutorial series begins to become more interesting is where we go after we've made this initial contact form.

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