symfonyLibrairy

Symfony application for library management

This is an application developed as part of my position as a web development trainer. The objective is that learners produce an application under Symfony allowing a librarian to manage loans and rendered in a catalog of books.

Through this exercise, students learn to:

• Start a project under Symfony
• Use online command tools
• Respect MVC architecture
• Use an orm
• Manage an object model
• Organize
• Use the Twig Template engine
• Manage objects
• Manage security in a simple way
• Use fixtures

Instructions

You are a team of junior developers hired by a local authority. You must create an application that will allow the city's librarians to manage the catalog of books as well as loans and rendering.

Please note the application is not accessible to users. Only library employees use the application. When someone wants to borrow a book, they show up at the employee's office with his membership card.

The application will allow:

• Show the list of books contained in the catalog as well as their status (available or loaned)

• Add a book to the catalog

• Being able to sort books according to their category thanks to a dropdown (for example: novel, poetry, adventure, etc.). When the user clicks for example on Roman, the page only displayed books in the Roman category.

• Being able to access the descriptive sheet of each book recorded in BDD

• Being able to modify the status of each book available to loaned and loaned to available. When a book is loaned the librarian indicates the user's unique identification number in order to know who borrowed what. When we come back to the descriptive sheet of the book This now indicates the information from the book as well as that of the user who borrowed it.

• Display the list of all users recorded in the system as well as their personal information and the books they may have borrowed when they click on their personal sheet.

As a reminder, here is a non -exhaustive list of useful information to know about a book: title, author, summary, date of publication, category. Of course you will have to add others.

Technical specifications:

• Symfony 4 framework, latest version maintained
• Safety managed without bundle
• CRUD made without the CRU generation doctrine tool
• Use of a CSS framework for the front, ideally Bootstrap 4

To go further

We have asked you for some basic features of a library management system but you can go much further and transform it into a real professional application.

Here is for example the features you can add:

• Offer a form to allow you to add a user
• Refine the sorting forms and allow to sort according to all the existing criteria (author, date of publication, etc.)
• Manage the loan and return dates to always know exactly the number of days remaining before the rendering
• Have access to a retail page of user information that lists all the books that the user has borrowed
• Have several copies of the same book in stock
• Set up a pagination system for the book catalog