Steps to create a login-form with symfony2

1. Setup Symfony

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• install apache (via XAMMP)

• download framework

• create folder in XAMMP/htdocs

• copy framework in this folder

• create bundle with

  $ php app/console generate:bundle bundleName

2. Create Database

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• create database for users-table
• create users-table (email, password, lastname, firstname etc.)
• create role for database with password

3. Setup parameters.yml

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• add database_name
• add user_name
• add user_password

4. Generate mapping and entities

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• mow the application needs some mapping between the bundle and the database
• we are using doctrine (maybe install with composer? Shouldn't be necessary)

1. create mapping:

   $ php app/console doctrine:mapping:import bundleName

2. create entities (create the models of the tables in the database)

   $ php app/console doctrine:generate:entities bundleName

5. Add login-form in special login.html.twig

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• add form-tag with method='POST' and action={{ path('route_name_to_login_action') }}
• add input for email (add name-parameter)
• add input for password (add name-parameter)
• add button for submit (add submit-parameter)

6. Add login-action to controller

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• add Request-Class with use-command
• initialize EntityManager
• initialize Repository (to search in the DB)
• get parameters from Request-Object (email and password)
• add user-validation via DB check