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Create a Service Class in Symfony 3

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    Create a Service Class in Symfony 3 Ryan Weaver
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    Ready to move a chunk of code out of the controller?
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    Well, good for you.
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    Step 1, create a new PHP class.
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    In AppBundle, I'll create a new directory called Service,
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    but that could be called anything.
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    Inside, add a new PHP class called MarkdownTransformer.
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    If you're keeping score at home,
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    that could also be called anything.
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    Start with 1 public function, parse, with an $str argument.
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    Eventually, this will do all the dirty work of markdown parsing and caching.
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    But for now, keep it simple and return strtoupper($str).
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    But use your imagination,
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    pretend like it totally is awesome and it is parsing our markdown.
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    In fact, it's so awesome that we want to use it in our controller.
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    How?
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    First, create a new object with
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    $transformer = new MarkdownTransformer.
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    Nothing special here.
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    The new method is purposefully not static,
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    and this means we need to instantiate the object first.
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    Next, add $funFact = $transformer->parse
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    and pass ($genus->getFunFact())
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    And that's it.
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    If you're feeling massively underwhelmed,
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    you're right where I want you.
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    I want this to be boring and easy.
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    There are fireworks and candy and ice cream
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    and other exciting stuff later, I promise.
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    Finish this by passing $funFact into the template
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    so we can render the parsed version.
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    Then, open the template and replace genus.funFact with just funFact.
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    Try it out. Open up localhost:8000/genus
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    Then click one of the genuses.
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    Yes!
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    The fun fact is screaming at us in upper case.
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    So believe it or not, you just saw one of the most important
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    and commonly confusing object-oriented strategies
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    that exist anywhere, in any language.
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    And it's this, you should take chunks of code that do things
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    and move them into an outside function in an outside class.
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    That's it.
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    Oh, and guess what?
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    MarkdownTransformer is a service.
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    Because remember, a service is just a class that does work for us.
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    And when you isolate a lot of your code into these service classes,
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    you start to build what's called a service-oriented architecture.
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    That basically means that instead of having all of your code in big controllers,
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    you organize them into nice little service classes that each do 1 job.
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    Of course, the MarkdownTransformer service
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    isn't actually transforming any markdown, so let's fix that.

Symfony 3: Level up with Services and the Container

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Create a Service Class in Symfony 3

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3 minutes 26 seconds // HDCC //

In this lesson, we'll move code out of the Controller and into a new class. You'll learn how to create this new service class and refactor the code that you took out of the Controller to work in this new context.

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