How to Install 3rd Party Bundles¶

Most bundles provide their own installation instructions. However, the basic steps for installing a bundle are the same:

A) Add Composer Dependencies
B) Enable the Bundle
C) Configure the Bundle

A) Add Composer Dependencies¶

Dependencies are managed with Composer, so if Composer is new to you, learn some basics in their documentation. This has 2 steps:

1) Find out the Name of the Bundle on Packagist¶

The README for a bundle (e.g. FOSUserBundle) usually tells you its name (e.g. friendsofsymfony/user-bundle). If it doesn’t, you can search for the library on the Packagist.org site.

注解

Looking for bundles? Try searching at KnpBundles.com: the unofficial archive of Symfony Bundles.

2) Install the Bundle via Composer¶

Now that you know the package name, you can install it via Composer:

$ composer require friendsofsymfony/user-bundle

This will choose the best version for your project, add it to composer.json and download the library into the vendor/ directory. If you need a specific version, add a : and the version right after the library name (see composer require).

B) Enable the Bundle¶

At this point, the bundle is installed in your Symfony project (in vendor/friendsofsymfony/) and the autoloader recognizes its classes. The only thing you need to do now is register the bundle in AppKernel:

// app/AppKernel.php

// ...
class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
    // ...

    public function registerBundles()
    {
        $bundles = array(
            // ...,
            new FOS\UserBundle\FOSUserBundle(),
        );

        // ...
    }
}

C) Configure the Bundle¶

It’s pretty common for a bundle to need some additional setup or configuration in app/config/config.yml. The bundle’s documentation will tell you about the configuration, but you can also get a reference of the bundle’s config via the config:dump-reference command.

For instance, in order to look the reference of the assetic config you can use this:

$ app/console config:dump-reference AsseticBundle

or this:

$ app/console config:dump-reference assetic

The output will look like this:

assetic:
    debug:                %kernel.debug%
    use_controller:
        enabled:              %kernel.debug%
        profiler:             false
    read_from:            %kernel.root_dir%/../web
    write_to:             %assetic.read_from%
    java:                 /usr/bin/java
    node:                 /usr/local/bin/node
    node_paths:           []
    # ...

Other Setup¶

At this point, check the README file of your brand new bundle to see what to do next. Have fun!