Symfony Workflow tutorial

The following is an example application which uses the Symfony Workflow component to implement a basic statemachine.

Run the app

1. git@github.com:makomweb/workflow-tutorial.git
2. composer install
3. php bin/console doctrine:database:create
4. php bin/console doctrine:schema:create
5. symfony server:start -d

Visit http://localhost:8000/create to initialize.

The following sections are just side notes.

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Make entity and controller

• composer require symfony/maker-bundle --dev
• php bin/console make:entity
• Product with name as string
• php bin/console make:controller
• ProductController

Setup database

• php bin/console doctrine:database:create
• php bin/console doctrine:schema:create

Print the Workflow

• symfony console workflow:dump product | dot -Tpng -o workflow.png

Add view

• composer require twig generates the template sub folder and the base template

Prepare the Product entity for the state machine

• add 'status' property to the Product entity php bin/console make:entity
• create a migration php bin/console make:migration
• run the migration php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate

Sample data / load fixtures

• composer require --dev orm-fixtures
• php bin/console doctrine:fixtures:load