Timed Symfony Test

This repository is part of Bitheater's selection process tests for Symfony developers.

Installation

For your convenience we've added in the master branch of this repository a Vagrant configuration file and an Ansible playbook, which will create and provision a virtual machine in your local machine with the base application. You're free to use them to set-up the development environment or use other methods to create your development environment.

If you don't want to use vagrant, make sure you have a working PHP/Symfony environment with a MySQL server. You can skip the "Set up" step, but you'll need to create a local database scheme with this credentials:

* User: tests
* DB: tests
* Password: tests

Pre-requisites to create the development environment with Vagrant and Ansible

If you decide to use Vagrant, please make sure:

• Vagrant is installed on your development machine
• Ansible is installed on your development machine

Set up Vagrant

vagrant up
vagrant ssh

NOTE: If any issue hapens after "vagrant up" execute "vagrant destroy" and try "vagrant up" again

Set up the application

cd /home/vagrant/test (or go to the root folder where the code has been downloaded if not using vagrant)
composer intall
php app/console doctrine:schema:update --force

Load sample data to the database (not required but recommended):

cd app/import
./import.sh

Check if the application is running correctly from any web browser using the url http://192.168.100.100, you should see something similar to the screenshot below

NOTE: we've seen that some times nginx doest refresh prperly, and we have to force it executing:

vagran ssh
sudo service nginx restart

Exercise

We have a basic blog application built in Symfony 2.8. You should add the following features/amends in order of priority:

• Filter posts by author - We want to be able to list all posts from a specific author (the author page)
• Add new post - We want to be able to add new posts. No need to be logged in, you can create a post and assign it to a user, we trust on our users!
• Pagination - We want to be able to paginate the results (5 per page would be a good number)
• Author page - We'll need a page to show post's author information, please follow the mock-ups below for its implementation
• Author page link - Add alink in the listing page pointing to the post's author page
• Author profile picture - Add the author picture to the author page using the Gravatar API
• Add CSS Styles - Apply CSS styles to the application so it looks like (approximately) the mock-ups provided below (you can use them as a guide, but feel free to use your own design, if you prefer).

Mock-ups

Home page

Post detail page

Author page

New post form

Recommendations

• Use any third-party bundles or front-end frameworks to help you speed up the delivery of the test

Sending the solution

In order to send your solution, you'll need to fork the repository to your own account and create a pull request so we can review your changes. If you're not sure how to do that, please read this document from the Bitbucket team.

When creating the pull request, there's no need to assign it to any user nor add a description if you don't want.