Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components and a PHP framework to build web applications, APIs, microservices and web services.
- Install PHP 7.2.5 or higher and these PHP extensions (which are installed and enabled by default in most PHP 7 installations)
- Install Composer, which is used to install PHP packages;
- Install Symfony, which creates in your computer a binary called symfony that provides all the tools you need to develop your application locally.
The symfony binary provides a tool to check if your computer meets these requirements. Open your console terminal and run this command:
$ symfony check:requirementsOpen your console terminal, move into your new project directory and start the local web server as follows:
$ cd my-project/
$ symfony server:start