Remove SonataPageBundle or Install a fresh Symfony2 with SonataAdmin project

Question

I downloaded and setup an Sonata's Sonata-Sandbox Bundle for Symfony2. I'm using Symfony 2.2.2. It's a good package and contains mostly used packages installed.

After installation I decided not to use SonataPageBundle that's included in package because it overrides all my Bundle's but unable to remove it.

I tried to remove it from composer.json and tried a php composer.phar update but no luck, update is always failing because of the dependency other libraries.

Actually, I need SonataAdminBundle with Media library on any version of Symfony 2.x. I found other solutions to install Symfony 2 + SonataAdminBundle + etc but they are also failing on different version support in composer.json and could't make a successful installation manually.

I'm on Mac 10.8 and BitNapi MAMP Stack 5.4.15-0 with PHP 5.3

Are there any better ways to install these extensions to Symfony 2?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use composer to install only the Sonata bundles you need. Here's mine, which is about as short as it gets for Sonata using Doctrine:

"require": {
    "sonata-project/admin-bundle": "dev-master",
    "sonata-project/doctrine-orm-admin-bundle": "dev-master",
    "sonata-project/user-bundle": "dev-master",
    "sonata-project/media-bundle": "dev-master"
}

If you haven't actually started coding anything, you might want to start a new project because removing PageBundle is slightly tedious and reinstalling using this guide is simple and basically three simple steps:

Install composer:

curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Download Symfony2:

php composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition /path/to/webroot/Symfony 2.3.0

Then you can add the bundles you need in composer.json and run

php composer.phar update