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February 2026

Published on Feb 14, 2026 · approx. 4 min read

CSRF in Symfony and Why Shopware Dropped It

CSRF protection is standard in Symfony – but Shopware 6 deliberately chose against it. Why? And how do you properly handle MySQL locking and parallel JavaScript requests?

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January 2026

Published on Jan 20, 2026 · approx. 1 min read

Effective Testing with PHPUnit: Symfony Projects and Shopware 6 Plugins

How to build solid test coverage in Symfony and Shopware 6 with PHPUnit – from unit tests to integration tests to E2E tests with Playwright.

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December 2025

Published on Dec 28, 2025 · approx. 1 min read

REST API Design: Best Practices for Symfony Projects

Proven patterns and conventions for REST API design in Symfony – from URL structure to error handling.

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November 2025

Published on Nov 5, 2025 · approx. 1 min read

Symfony Messenger in Production: systemd Service, RabbitMQ and nginx HTTP/2 Push

From local development to production-ready setup: How to run Symfony Messenger with RabbitMQ, a custom systemd service and nginx HTTP/2 server push.

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January 2025

Published on Jan 15, 2025 · approx. 2 min read

Symfony 7 Upgrade Guide: Migrating from Symfony 6 to 7

Symfony 7 requires PHP 8.2 as a minimum, removes deprecated features and introduces new ones. This guide walks through migrating a Symfony 6 project to version 7 step by step.

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