Installation

There are four ways to install the Symfony framework:

The easiest way is to download the Symfony installer and make it publicly accessible via the following commands:

$ sudo curl -LsS https://symfony.com/installer -o /usr/local/bin/symfony
$ sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/symfony

Now create a new project simply by running the following command:

$ symfony new mava

As this command shows, it will ask the Symfony installer to create a new folder in the current path called mava, and when you hit enter, you will see that the Symfony source code will be downloaded to that folder:

In the list of things that we can do after installation is running the application immediately, without installing a virtual host. Thanks to the PHP built-in web server, we can run it via Symfony's console and browse the mava app at port 8000 on localhost:

$ bin/console server:run

The following screenshot shows how http://localhost:8000 looks like in your favourite browser: