In this new post to the Auth0 blog Prosper Otemuyiwa shows you how to create a first Symfony framework based application and add in authentication with the included Guard functionality.

Symfony is a PHP framework, made up of a lot of decoupled and reusable components. It's a framework that promotes standardization and professionalism, supports best practices and interoperability of applications. In this tutorial, I'll show you how easy it is to build a web application with Symfony and add authentication to it without banging your head on a wall! Check out the repo to get the code.

They start with a brief overview of some of the components the framework is made up of (the most commonly used ones) and its concept of "bundles". He then helps you create your first Symfony application, explains its basic structure and starts in setting up controllers. Then comes the authentication and user validation pieces: registration handling, user functionality and creating its related database storage. Next up is setting up the routes for the application applying the authentication handling and finishing out the views for output. They end the post with a look at the profile debug bar, how Symfony compares to other frameworks and how to optionally integrate the Auth0 functionality in if you choose.