Basic PHP and Symfony 2.8 interview

Dear candidate, please follow this readme and solve all questions.

Before you can start, you should prepare your development environment.

Using Symfony with Homestead/Vagrant

In order to develop a Symfony application, you might want to use a virtual development environment instead of the built-in server or WAMP/LAMP. Homestead is an easy-to-use Vagrant box to get a virtual environment up and running quickly.

Before you can use Homestead, you need to install and configure Vagrant and Homestead as explained in the Homestead documentation.

Resources:

• Using Symfony with Homestead/Vagrant
• Homestead documentation

This test requires:

• access to the internet
• an php capable IDE (we suggest PhpStorm with symfony, yaml, twig and php annotations plugin)
• working setup of PHP 5.6+ (http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/requirements.html)
• composer (https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-linux-unix-osx)
• mongoDB (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/installation/)
• nginx or alternative simple web server

Tip: Install Robomongo on your OS

Tip: Clone the test repository and make sure its working. Access the project with your favourite browser. You should see similar welcome screen. Dont forget to run composer install.

Help: PHP 5.6+ (debian/ubuntu)

sudo apt-get install -qq php5-cli php5-fpm php5-mysqlnd php5-curl php5-gd php5-json php5-redis php5-imap php5-intl php5-imagick php5-mcrypt php5-xdebug php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-twig php5-mongo php5-dev

Help: (optional) PECL MongoDB library (debian/ubuntu)

sudo apt-get install pkg-config libssl-dev && sudo pecl update-channels && sudo pecl install mongodb

Good luck!

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Test tasks:

1. Change the text on symfony homepage from "Welcome to Symfony 2.8.8" to "This is a test"

2. Run the PhpUnit test. Check if there are any errors, if so fix them.

3. Create a new Bundle "InterviewBundle" within the namespace "Test"

4. Create a method helloAction under AppBundle\Controller\DefaultController

• for route /hello
• with a proper json return {"hello":"world!"}

1. Create a "Bios" collection and load the example data into your MongoDB server

• copy the json string from mongodb website (link)
• or download and load the archive dump (link)

1. Define ODM "Bios" document under namespace Test/InterviewBundle/Documents

2. Define ODM "Bios" repository under namespace Test/InterviewBundle/Repositories

3. Implement following repository methods

• findByFirstName($firstName)
• findByContribution($contributionName)
• findByDeadBefore($year)

1. Define and create a service "BiosService" under namespace Test/InterviewBundle/Services and implement following methods

• getAllAwards()
• Use the logger to log operations (error, warning, debug)

1. Create ContributionsController under namespace Test/InterviewBundle/Controller

2. Add a contributionsAction method to your ContributionsController

• for route /contributions
• make a use of your BiosService
• avoid logic under controller
• method should list all contributions
• with a proper json return ["contrib", ...]

1. Add a biosByContributionAction method to your ContributionsController

• for route /contributions/{contributionName}
• make a use of your BiosService
• avoid logic under controller
• method should list all bios documents with provided contribution
• with a proper json return [{...}]

1. make a unit test for the controller

• check if route /hello has response code 200
• check if route /hello response is a json
• check if route /contributions has response code 200
• check if route /contributions/fake has response code 404
• check if route /contributions/OOP has response code 200

1. make a unit test for the BiosService

• at least 1 method of your choice

1. write a command called test:command that should accept 1 argument called id under namespace Test/InterviewBundle/Command

• The command should check if a Bios document with an id of the argument exists
• if document exists, return info "document exists"
• if document doesnt exist, return error "document doesnt exist"

Bonus tasks

1. Go to app/config/config.yml and add the following yaml structure. (NOTICE: ping is as child-key of test)

test:
  ping: pong

1. Check the symfony application for errors and fix them if any.

2. write a prompt for the command test:command

• Prompt text is "This is a test. Do you want to continue (y/N) ?"
• If you decline, return error "Nothing done. Exiting..."
• If you accept, run the command

That's it!

Thank you for your participation! Good luck submitting your results!