Installation ============ Download bundles ---------------- To begin, add the dependent bundles to the ``vendor/bundles`` directory. Add the following lines to the file ``deps``:: [SonatajQueryBundle] git=http://github.com/sonata-project/SonatajQueryBundle.git target=/bundles/Sonata/jQueryBundle [SonataUserBundle] git=http://github.com/sonata-project/SonataUserBundle.git target=/bundles/Sonata/UserBundle [SonataAdminBundle] git=http://github.com/sonata-project/SonataAdminBundle.git target=/bundles/Sonata/AdminBundle [KnpMenuBundle] git=https://github.com/KnpLabs/KnpMenuBundle.git target=/bundles/Knp/Bundle/MenuBundle [KnpMenu] git=https://github.com/KnpLabs/KnpMenu.git target=/knp/menu [SonataDoctrineORMAdminBundle] git=http://github.com/sonata-project/SonataDoctrineORMAdminBundle.git target=/bundles/Sonata/DoctrineORMAdminBundle and run:: bin/vendors install Configuration ------------- Next, be sure to enable the bundles in your autoload.php and AppKernel.php files: .. code-block:: php registerNamespaces(array( // ... 'Sonata' => __DIR__.'/../vendor/bundles', 'Knp\Bundle' => __DIR__.'/../vendor/bundles', 'Knp\Menu' => __DIR__.'/../vendor/knp/menu/src', // ... )); // app/AppKernel.php public function registerBundles() { return array( // ... new Sonata\jQueryBundle\SonatajQueryBundle(), new Sonata\AdminBundle\SonataAdminBundle(), new Knp\Bundle\MenuBundle\KnpMenuBundle(), new Sonata\DoctrineORMAdminBundle\SonataDoctrineORMAdminBundle(), // ... ); } The bundle also contains several routes. Import them by adding the following code to your application's routing file: .. code-block:: yaml # app/config/routing.yml admin: resource: '@SonataAdminBundle/Resources/config/routing/sonata_admin.xml' prefix: /admin _sonata_admin: resource: . type: sonata_admin prefix: /admin The last step is to generate the blog bundle in which we will work. php app/console generate:bundle --namespace=Tutorial/BlogBundle And we enable it: .. code-block:: php registerNamespaces(array( // ... 'Tutorial' => __DIR__.'/../src', // ... )); At this point you can access to the dashboard with the url: http://yoursite.local/admin/dashboard