Symfony REST Backend with SMS Integration

Overview

A Symfony backend exposing a REST API with user management and an admin panel, including programmatic SMS sending via a third-party messaging gateway.

The Challenge

A community/utility backend needs the usual building blocks, authentication, an admin UI, a REST surface for clients, plus an automated outbound-SMS path for notifications, all on a maintainable framework.

What We Built

A Symfony application wired with Doctrine ORM for persistence, FOSUserBundle for authentication/user management, FOSRestBundle for the JSON API, EasyAdmin for the back-office, SwiftMailer/Monolog for mail and logging, and an SMS-sending integration (the repo’s namesake) for programmatic text messages. Standard Symfony layout (app/, src/, web/, bin/, tests with PHPUnit).

Technologies & Approach

The Symfony 2.x ecosystem and its “FriendsOfSymfony” bundles for proven auth/REST/admin patterns; Doctrine for the data layer; an SMS gateway integration for outbound messaging. A conventional, framework-driven backend.

Outcome / Impact

A functioning REST backend with auth, admin, email, and SMS, an early full-stack backend showing command of the Symfony ecosystem and third-party messaging integration. Archived.

Capabilities Demonstrated

• Building REST APIs and admin panels on Symfony + Doctrine
• Authentication and user management (FOSUserBundle)
• Integrating outbound SMS and email into a backend