Netgen Layouts is about having your 🎂 - i.e. any Symfony app - and eating it too... by allowing you to rearrange your pages and mix in dynamic content via an admin area. Yup, your Symfony app & Twig templates + the power of a CMS tacked into the side. And all of this is done in a gently way, without "taking over" your app.
In this tutorial, we'll go from zero to hero by installing Layouts into an existing Symfony app:
- Installing & Setting up Layouts
- Mapping a "Layout" to existing pages
- Including your existing Twig blocks in your layout
- Adding custom "value types" and "query types" so you can embed grids/lists of the custom content from your app
- Customizing "item views": the templates used in grids/lists
- Creating a "content browser" to manually select content from your app
- Pulling content from a CMS - Contentful for our example
- Theming! Powerful and simple way to override templates
- Block Views: customizing how a block renders
- Block Plugins: adding custom options to every block in the system
Layouts is fun: adding a new level of flexibility without changing how you build your app.
