An introduction to the symfony web framework (version 1)

1. code4lib SIG Spring Forum
March 16, 2011

2. symfony basics
Full stack framework
Build apps very simple (as we're about to do), or very
complex
Current version 1.4 (v2.0 is being released... soon.)
PHP5
OOP (see also Zandstra-> )

3. History of symfony
first blog post - October 2005
1.0 - January 2007
1.1 - June 2008
1.2 - December 2008 - new forms system
1.3/1.4 - November 2009
2.0 - now

4. Community
symfony forums
symfony email list (helpful??)

5. Components
ORM
Propel
Doctrine
none
Testing
Unit: lime (??); phpunit plugins available
Functional: symfony native
SwiftMailer for email generation
Forms & validation, routing, input sanitizing, output
escaping, I18n, access restrictions, ...... and your stuff --
fully extensible

6. Plugins
DRT - don't repeat them
http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/
sfPropelGuard / sfDoctrineGuard
sfFormExtra (reCAPTCHA, TinyMCE, jQuery forms, ...)
tjSolrDoctrineBehavior
Automatically index records on create/update
Doctrine::getTable('MyTableName')
->search( $querystring )

7. Crash course
Build a subject guides app
Create data schema
Generate backend admin forms
Apply custom validation
Add plugin for TinyMCE (WYSIWYG editor)
Create basic frontend
Ready??!