In this tutorial; we will create a number of database objects, which will later be made available through API endpoints. We’ll then use these, together with AngularJS, to create an online shop. We’ll finish things off with an overview of creating and emailing PDF documents.

Unless you’re from France, you may not yet have heard about Thelia, an e-commerce system that is getting some international attention, due in no small part to the buzzwords thrown around in the media material released for the launch of the beta version of Thelia 2 in late September.

The full version won’t be launched until the end of this year, but when an e-commerce system is described in terms of open source, Symfony, HTML5, Bootstrap, Propel, PHPUnit, Travis, Smarty and semantic microdata, it warrants some attention.