Installing Symfony with Symfony using the Browser

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1. Installing Symfony with Symfony using the Browser Building a user-friendly

   Web Installer for Symfony projects

2. Soner Sayakci Also known as Shyim Too much OSS: OpenSearch/Testcontainers

   What I do for work?: Building Developer Tooling Where?: @Shopware 27 November 2025

3. What is Shopware? • Open-source eCommerce software • Headless first

   • Based on Symfony Framework • Extensible via Symfony Bundles • Currently 5,200 extensions by the Community 27 November 2025

4. Setting up Shopware from scratch 27 November 2025 Requires: •

   A Terminal • CLI experience and Composer knowledge • Understanding that multiple PHP versions may exist in parallel (shared env)

5. Desired solution? 27 November 2025 • Shopware should run on

   shared hosters which don’t provide CLI access • Drop a file and install solution (really convenient) • The barrier to start with Shopware should be as low as possible

6. First Solution: Zip files • Generate zip file: • Our

   CI runs composer create-project • Zips content • Uploads to GitHub release • User downloads and unpacks on Webspace • Problems: • Reverts important files like composer.json • Conflicts with manually installed packages • Config files overwritten 27 November 2025

7. What are others doing in PHP ecosystem? Wordpress uses zip

   files Why does it work well for them? • Escaping the “modern” PHP world without using Composer • Plugins put into a separate folder which is not in the zip • If composer packages required, it’s the job of plugins 27 November 2025 zip file

8. What are others doing in Symfony ecosystem? 27 November 2025

   • Single file to install/update as Phar • Uses Composer under the hood This is genius! We borrowed the idea, thank you @Contao!

9. Portable PHP Archives: Phar • Combines multiple files into one

   file • Similar to .jar files • Entrypoint script (stub) • Can be compressed • Can be signed • Can be executed in CLI • Can be executed using a web browser 27 November 2025

10. Creating our Hello World Phar 27 November 2025

11. Creating our Hello World Phar 27 November 2025

12. Creating our Hello World Phar 27 November 2025

13. Embedding files 27 November 2025

14. Embedding files 27 November 2025

15. Embedding files 27 November 2025

16. Embedding files 27 November 2025

17. Box tool for building Phar 27 November 2025

18. Box tool for building Phar 27 November 2025

19. Running the Phar in Browser 27 November 2025

20. Running the Phar in Browser 27 November 2025

21. Running the Phar in Browser 27 November 2025

22. Packaging regular Symfony into Phar 27 November 2025

23. Packaging regular Symfony into Phar 27 November 2025

24. Packaging regular Symfony into Phar 27 November 2025

25. Packaging regular Symfony into Phar 27 November 2025

26. Packaging regular Symfony into Phar 27 November 2025

27. Assets? 27 November 2025

28. Phar Asset Routing 27 November 2025 Phar::webPhar

29. Phar Asset Routing 27 November 2025

30. Phar Asset Routing 27 November 2025

31. Looks good, do we have everything? 27 November 2025 •

    We can build an installer by utilizing regular Symfony • It’s in a single file easily useable by the user • It has all assets embedded and is easy to use But: To install the actual PHP project, we need Composer! • Should we require globally installed Composer? • Download it and execute it then? • ???

32. Looks good, do we have everything? 27 November 2025

33. Embedding Composer 27 November 2025

34. Embedding Composer 27 November 2025

35. Running Composer from Web 27 November 2025 Which PHP?

36. Running Composer from Web 27 November 2025

37. Running Composer from Web 27 November 2025

38. Finish 27 November 2025

39. Thanks! Repositories: • contao/contao-manager • shopware/web-installer