PHP - Senior Php / Php Developer (m/f) – Symfony 2 Or Laraval

We're a London-based start-up company called md8 LTD. Right now we are looking for a UK-based senior server-side and client-side developer to build the main application of our ground breaking debating website.

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finder.com.au is making waves in the comparison space, and we are expanding our Design & Technology team massively this year. We are looking for several full-stack Senior PHP Developers who will be responsible for building a wide variety of web-based applications (using PHP and MySQL) in addition to maintaining existing PHP code, optimizing website and database performance and developing custom PHP solutions. This is a great opportunity for web people at heart to join a growing team delivering awesome products that get used by hundreds of thousands of users. As a developer at finder.com.au you will have the freedom, autonomy, and responsiblity to improve the code, tools, and architecture without having to cut through red tape.   Why finder.com.au?   We've just been named one of the top service companies in the Asia Pacific for 2014, taking silver in the Stevie Awards for Australian Service Company of the year. We’ve also been dubbed one of Anthill’s 50 coolest companies in Australia for 2013 thanks to our amazing team, wonderful users and cool company culture.  As a development team, we move quickly, releasing code several times per day.  You need to be willing to move fast, rely on automation, make decisions on less than perfect information, trust your teammates, and constantly strive to improve. A new Head of Design and Technology, with experience at two of local startup scene’s biggest success stories, recently joined us to lead the team on a mission to speed up the entire company to become the Australian brand for comparison. The team runs hackdays every other month that give all developers free time to show off their creativity and innovation.  You will have choice of OS, laptop or desktop, IDE and toolset, and up to 3 monitors. What’s more, you will experience an ultra modern office located in the heart of the Sydney CBD, catered lunches and breakfast supplied every day and all the snacks and drinks you want!   Who are  you?   You live and breathe development and your code has soul. You are a great PHP coder that wants to join a team where you can flex your skills and grow further. You are an expert who understands complex problems and enjoys deploying solutions to business problems. You are keen to get your projects live and solve business problems and improve the development environment and tooling. You also have experience in getting code live multiple times per day. You may be applying from overseas – We are happy to provide support with sponsored relocation services. We already have a number of people on our team from overseas so you will be joining a community.   Must have experience:   4+ years of PHP development experience for Senior Roles Experience with phpunit Knowledge of CI tools (Bamboo, Travis, CircleCI) Knowledge of CD tools (Beanstalk, Capistrano) Knowledge of Git Ability and desire to use and extend Git tools (GitHub, Bitbucket) to enhance workflow Ability to mentor junior developers Experience with Wordpress beneficial Knowledge of Front End technologies beneficial Knowledge of monitoring tools beneficial   Please send us a resume to iwantin@finder.com.au and optionally provide us with a link to your GitHub or Bitbucket profile and a personal note as to why you would want to work with us at finder.com.au.    

While I am impressed with much of Symfony, the needing to know everything the "symfony way" is a little annoying.  For an application, I will have several types of users:

Admin Users.  They can create a project, add new vendors, assign vendors to a given project, add new normal or admin users, etc. Vendors.  They can view projects which they are assigned to and upload documents for that project. Normal Users.  They will have the ability to view documents related to a given project which are submitted by vendors. Super Users.  There will be multiple Accounts where all of the above user's will be assigned to a single, and they can only interact with others assigned to that same account.  The super user can create an account and add the initial Admin User to that account.

To expose the data, I am using api-platform.  Currently, I am just trying to create endpoints to retrieve a list of vendors, normal users, etc.

One possible solution I know how to accomplish but don't believe is the correct way is to create an AbstractUser and create VendorUser, NormalUser, etc which extend AbstractUser.  Doing so will create routes for each of these user types and meet my immediate needs.

Alternatively, I can create only a single User entity, and then assign roles such as ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_VENDOR, ROLE_USER, or ROLE_SUPER.  Ideally, I could then add new routes such as /vendors instead of making it /users?type=vendor.

Or maybe I should be doing something totally different.

If I was building this from scratch, I can definitely figure something out, however, would like to take advantage of symfony and do it their way.  But I am a complete newbie when it comes to symfony, and don't even know where to start, and would appreciate a strategy to go which won't lead me down to bad of wrong path.

This topic has been moved to Application Frameworks.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=317833.0

A while back, I was showed how to authenticate to PostgreSQL using peer authentication over a socket for applications where PHP, FPM, and PostgreSQL are all on the same machine.  All works.

I could use native PHP as shown and it returns results without errors so I know that PHP, FPM, and PostgreSQL is setup correctly to establish a connection using peer authentication without a PostgreSQL username or password.

$pdo = new PDO("pgsql:dbname=testing");
$rs = $pdo->query('SELECT * FROM company')->fetchAll();

I could also use Doctrine but not Symfony and get results without errors so I know that Doctrine is capable of establishing a connection using peer authentication without a PostgreSQL username or password.

$pdo = EntityManager::create(['driver' => 'pdo_pgsql','dbname' => 'testing'], Setup::createAnnotationMetadataConfiguration([__DIR__."/../src"], true, null, null, false))->getConnection();
$rs = $pdo->query('SELECT * FROM company')->fetchAll();

Now I am trying to do the same but when using Symfony.  I expected I could just edit config/packages/doctrine.yaml as follows, however, it results in An exception occurred in driver: SQLSTATE[08006] [7] fe_sendauth: no password supplied

doctrine:
    dbal:
        driver: pdo_pgsql
        dbname: testing
        server_version: 13

Any thoughts how to do this?  Thank you