The Symfony CMF Book

Chapter 11
Using the BlockBundle and ContentBundle
with PHPCR
The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate how the CMF BlockBundle and ContentBundle can be used as
stand-alone components, and to show how they fit into the PHPCR.
This tutorial demonstrates the simplest possible usage, to get you up and running quickly. Once you are
familiar with basic usage, the in-depth documentation of both bundles will help you to adapt these basic
examples to serve more advanced use cases.
We will begin with using only BlockBundle, with content blocks linked directly into the PHPCR. Next,
we will introduce the ContentBundle to show how it can represent content pages containing blocks.
Preconditions
Although not a requirement for using BlockBundle or ContentBundle, this tutorial will also make
use of DoctrineFixturesBundle 1 . This is because it provides an easy way to load in some test
content.
• Installation of Symfony2 2 (2.1.x)
• Installing and Configuring Doctrine PHPCR-ODM
This tutorial is based on using PHPCR-ODM set up with Jackalope, Doctrine DBAL and a MySQL
database. It should be easy to adapt this to work with one of the other PHPCR options documented
in Installing and Configuring Doctrine PHPCR-ODM.
1. http://symfony.com/doc/current/bundles/DoctrineFixturesBundle/index.html
2. http://symfony.com/doc/2.1/book/installation.html
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