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2myCharlie
2myCharlie

Reputation: 1907

Is Drupal 8 and Symfony totally different or can use both?

I'm quite new to Drupal 8 and Symfony and I've been reading/looking at some YouTube tutorials on the Symfony. We are going to use Drupal 8 for our site. Does this mean we can't use Symfony? Is it one or the other? My understanding at this point is that we will do a majority of our site through theming and modules. Does this mean I don't know need to create a full Symfony site right out of the gate? Any insight is much appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 738

Answers (1)

twill
twill

Reputation: 775

Drupal 8 now uses symfony2 - if you are just beginning with Drupal, I wouldn't be concerned about symfony at all. Symfony is a collection of bundled php components - these libraries in turn drive some of the 'core' of D8.

For example, some of the Symfony2 components used in drupal : HttpFoundation, HttpKernel, Routing, EventDispatcher, DependencyInjection, and ClassLoader

You can see from the above, these are very low-level functionalities in the stack, likely things you will not mess with too much (at least at first), and rather just need to know how to access classes/methods (especially for things such as Routing and Dependency Injection)

Really I think it's a strategic move by Drupal to allow developers familiar with Symfony to acclimate much more quickly to the drupal environment. It's also keeping in mind that now if you write a really great php library, you can plug it into your drupal site, and then also contribute it back to the community so anyone using symfony could use it.

From what I can tell in your post, you really have no worries about the intermingling of the two - Drupal is much more of a traditional CMS, whereas Symfony is a collection of php components.

Some good articles about both of these: http://symfony.com/what-is-symfony http://www.blinkreaction.com/blog/why-is-symfony-in-drupal-8-and-how-does-that-change-things

Good luck and happy coding

Upvotes: 2

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