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🛠️ Prerequisites

Symfony is a modern PHP framework that makes it easy to build web applications. It's flexible, scalable, and easy to use. It's also a great way to learn PHP and web development.

In their own words:

Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components... ...and a PHP framework for web projects

:::tip You can even try their cloud platform without installing anything! :::

PHP Tools

• PHP - Symfony requires PHP 7.4 or higher. You can download PHP from the official PHP website.

```bash brew install php ``` ```bash sudo apt-get install php ``` Download the [official PHP installer](https://www.php.net/downloads)

• Composer - Symfony uses Composer to manage its dependencies. Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. You can download Composer from the official Composer website.

```bash brew install composer ``` ```bash sudo apt-get install composer ``` Download the [official Composer installer](https://getcomposer.org/download/)

• Symfony CLI - Symfony provides a command-line tool called the Symfony CLI. It's a great way to create new Symfony applications, manage dependencies, and run your application. You can download the Symfony CLI from the official Symfony website.

```bash curl -sS https://get.symfony.com/cli/installer | bash ``` ```bash wget https://get.symfony.com/cli/installer -O - | bash ``` Download the [official Symfony CLI installer](https://symfony.com/download)

MongoDB Atlas cluster

Please follow our quick start with Atlas to create a free cluster if you don't have one already.

By the end of this page you will have

• PHP tools to start a Symfony project
• A MongoDB Atlas cluster to connect to with a connection string URI (see more here)