1. Installation

1.1. 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

1.2. Configuration

Next, be sure to enable the bundles in your autoload.php and AppKernel.php files:

<?php
// app/autoload.php
$loader->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:

# 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:

<?php
// app/autoload.php
$loader->registerNamespaces(array(
    // ...
    'Tutorial'      => __DIR__.'/../src',
    // ...
));

At this point you can access to the dashboard with the url:

http://yoursite.local/admin/dashboard