KNP Labs

16/10/2026

Rewind ⏪ Cosmic Coding with Symfony #18
We're going to make our new Symfony app much more awesome by introducing my absolute favorite JavaScript tool: Stimulus. With about 10 lines of code, we'll have an animated, closeable sidebar that *always* works.
https://symfonycasts.com/screencast/symfony/stimulus

14/10/2026

Rewind ⏪ Cosmic Coding with Symfony #17
We're well on our way to building a beautiful Symfony app and today, we finish making the design dynamic! But we're also writing code that's clean & understandable. And we'll add "smart model methods" towards this goal.

Turns the starship pages into a fully dynamic Twig-driven design by moving repeated display logic into Starship model methods, fixing asset paths, and wiring named routes for homepage/show links.

13/10/2026

🔐 Symfony Security: Going Further #9
Let's swap the built-in switch_user role for a custom attribute, let a voter make the call, & see how to check the permissions of any user - not just the one logged in. And, now our admins can't impersonate each other! https://symfonycasts.com/screencast/symfony8-security-extra/impersonation-voter

09/10/2026

Rewind ⏪ Cosmic Coding with Symfony #16
Let's tighten up our growing Symfony app with an enum to track starship repair status! Enums are almost as much fun as space tutorials 🛸

Refactors starship status from an unconstrained string into a PHP 8.1+ string-backed enum so only in progress, waiting, and completed are valid, then updates the model, repository, and Twig template to work with enum values

08/10/2026

🔐 Symfony Security: Going Further #8
Let's give users the choice to log in with their email or username! We'll add unique usernames, update our login form, and teach Symfony how to find users by either one. https://symfonycasts.com/screencast/symfony8-security-extra/username-or-email

07/10/2026

Rewind ⏪ Cosmic Coding with Symfony #15
Short but sweet! In 2.5 minutes, we'll organize Twig code into a template partial and start breathing dynamic life into our design with a Twig for loop!

Uses Twig partials and for loops to break a large homepage template into reusable pieces and to render a dynamic list of Starship objects from the existing ships array.

06/10/2026

🔐 Symfony Security: Going Further #7
After logging in, users should return to the page they were on, not the homepage! Let's use Symfony's _target_path to send them right back where they left off, making the login experience a little smoother! https://symfonycasts.com/screencast/symfony8-security-extra/target-path

05/10/2026

Rewind ⏪ Cosmic Coding with Symfony #14
Our new Symfony site deserves to look *great*. Let's hook that up with Tailwind CSS courtesy of the excellent bundle from those nice folks over at Symfonycasts 😊. I *love* how much fun this is!

Sets up Tailwind CSS in a Symfony 7 app, explains how Tailwind is built and kept up to date during development, and then replaces the starter templates with predesigned Tailwind markup that still needs to be made dynamic.

02/10/2026

🔐 Symfony Security: Going Further #6
Need a super admin who can do (almost) anything? Let's build a custom voter that grants sweeping permissions across our app, while making sure important authentication checks still behave normally! https://symfonycasts.com/screencast/symfony8-security-extra/super-admin-voter

01/10/2026

🔐 Symfony Security: Going Further #5
Ever notice how GitHub asks you to confirm your password before sensitive actions? Let's build that same "sudo mode" in Symfony, requiring full authentication with a smooth password confirmation flow! https://symfonycasts.com/screencast/symfony8-security-extra/sudo-mode