Symfony Installer

The Symfony Installer is the easiest and fastest way to create a new project based on the Symfony full-stack framework.

Installing the installer

This step is only needed the first time you use the installer. We recommend you to install it globally so you can use it anywhere on your system. To do so, execute the following commands:

# install the Symfony installer
$ composer global require symfony/symfony-installer ~1.0@dev

# update the Symfony installer
$ composer global update symfony/symfony-installer

Once installed, this tool adds a new symfony binary that can be used to easily access to all its features:

$ symfony

Using the installer

1. Start a new project with the latest Symfony version

Execute the new command and provide the name of your project:

$ symfony new blog/

2. Start a new project based on a specific Symfony version

Execute the new command and provide the name of your project as the first argument followed by the needed version as the second argument:

$ symfony new blog/ 2.2.5