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Symfony Workflow with Events: Payment Processing Example

Managing complex business workflows in an application can be challenging. Symfony provides a Workflow Component that simplifies state transitions while ensuring event-driven execution.
In this blog, we will implement a Payment Processing Workflow with the following states:
- Pending → Payment is yet to be received.
- Received → Payment is received.
- Process → Payment is being processed.
- Success → Payment is completed successfully.
We will also integrate event listeners to trigger custom logic at different stages of the workflow.
Let’s start with installation if you project haven’t workflow bundle.
Installing Symfony Workflow
Before starting, install the Symfony Workflow component using Composer:
composer require symfony/workflow
This will add the necessary dependencies to manage workflows in your Symfony project.
Workflow Configuration
Symfony workflows are configured in config/packages/workflow.yaml
. Let’s define our payment_process workflow: