How to build simple CRUD API service with Symfony 5 for beginners

In this #programming tutorial I explain how to build a CRUD API service based on popular #PHP framework #Symfony.
As an example I demonstrate a flow of adding products by customer into shopping cart.
I made a focus on beginners, who just started using Symfony. But there are also some details which can be interesting for more skilled developers.
I use Symfony 5 and PHP 7.4 but this video is also relevant for older versions of Symfony and PHP.

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⭐️ TABLE OF CONTENT⭐️

00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:33 Creating entities
00:05:00 Creating CustomerController
00:06:25 Creating Doctrine migration
00:06:59 Defining customer's routes
00:08:09 Adding Customer FormType
00:09:33 Creating abstract API Controller
00:11:00 Adding createAction for customer
00:12:28 Testing creating a new customer
00:13:50 Installation FOS Rest bundle
00:15:02 Rendering form's errors
00:16:42 Adding form's validations
00:17:46 Creating CRUD for Product
00:21:35 Creating CRUD for Cart

[CapCoding]

Guys, what else do you want to learn from me? Comment down below and let me know so I create more tutorials for you.

[rahmanabdur]

i rally njoyd watching this vidos. i want more videos lik this

[normatonkes]

This is unique, thanks for sharing this tutorial. This is so simply way to learn.!

[alalif]

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[kaushikmakwana]

Thank you for your tutorial. but for the beginners, few things missings
1. Symfony installations
2. Database Connection
3. Its contain lot of copy-paste, if you write code then it is good for beginners

Thanks :)

[ugyamarmaeducationinformat]

Hey! Thank you very much for this tutorial.

Thanks for the video. For the ones will build a form with a PUT request, should pass method PUT as follows:

$form = $this->buildForm(ProductType::class, $user, [
"method" => "PUT"
]);

[ОксанаГоробей-од]

Классный туториал, но были моменты о которых ты не упомянул, так как возможно для тебя они очевидны, но для меня перейдя с другого фреймворка это было неожиданным, и реально часа два гуглила как решить проблему. Но вообще лучший из всех что видела!

[KeshaniVithanage]

Thank you so much for this tutorial 👍🏻

[GameplayWOT]

Hello, How created options / header / put response?

[MrVader-pwmx]

Отличное видео! Спасибо. А можно ли вынести логику из контроллеров в сервисы? и можно в сервисе использовать функции из AbstractApiController?

[zrobs]

the handleRequest (11:35) in my project throw 500,
I have no control over it, just with try catch. Any suggests ?

[pablomoras]

Hi, im new here to Symfony and Docker, and i saw that you started with the proyect on Docker, can you please upload a tutorial about Docker and Symfony? I did a few small Symfony proyects (currently trying a Symfony Shopping Website), and i want to learn how to use Docker with my
proyects and future proyects, can you? Thank you so much! Love your videos

[alexaverkiyev]

On Form validation error it should return status code 422 instead of 400, since your app recognized the request data and its structure.

[soukainabouzayan]

hi, ever when I use fosbundle it still get a "not valid form" in response

[GameplayWOT]

In the video, we use Postman for api testing. How to download and send data in the page controller to display data on the page (return $ this-> render ('posts / products.html.twig)? How to send json query to api and retrieve data? Have a nice day!

[michaelbrauner]

I love watching your videos!
Can I ask something?

[thedevilz]

Respectfully, Your tutorial is for sure not for the beginners the reason you're not explaining why you are creating any piece of code, what's the reason of creating your abstract class and how it's all connected. Thank you

[mehdinaimi]

Hello thanks for this video but i wanna know why you used "AbstractApiController". that difcult no ???

[skimran]

In your video coding looking so small can you zoom it