The Definitive Guide to symfony – Sample Chapter
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If you are not familiar with symfony, this chapter is a great introduction. Here’s a little taste for you. This is the summary for Chapter 1.
bq. “Symfony”:http://www.symfony-project.com/ is a PHP 5 web application framework. It adds a new layer on top of the PHP language, providing tools that speed up the development of complex web applications. This book will tell you all about it, and you just need to be familiar with the basic concepts of modern programming to understand it – namely object-oriented programming (OOP), object-relational mapping (ORM), and rapid application development (RAD). The only required technical background is knowledge of PHP 5.
p. Those crafty devils at Apress timed the recent release of the book to coincide (roughly) with the recent “announcement of the 1.0 milestone”:http://www.symfony-project.com/weblog/2007/02/19/symfony-1-0-released.html for symfony.
If you are interested in reading more, just click “here”:http://devzone.zend.com/content/pdfs/Def_Guide_To_Symfony_ch1.pdf to view the PDF.
Look for more about this book in coming weeks. I’ve got an interview with the two authors, Francois Zaninotto and Fabien Potencier, as well as a full review.
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8 comments to “The Definitive Guide to symfony – Sample Chapter”
March 12th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Excellent, but the link to the PDF is a 404 for me. Please update the URL, I’m very interesting in giving it a read through
March 12th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
I’ve fixed it, checked it, and it’s working now.
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March 13th, 2007 at 11:24 am
The entire contents of the book can be found on Symfony’s website: http://www.symfony-project.com/book/trunk. It’s been released under a GFDL license.
March 13th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Yes, the book is released under GDFL at http://www.symfony-project.com/book/trunk. This is a fact that we talked about in the author interview to be published in the next week or so. I think it’s a great idea and hope that after reading it on-line, people will support the project and authors by buying a printed copy.
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March 13th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
You should also note that the framework has a native ZF bridge wich enables the use of ZF modules within symfony. PHP Frameworks walking hands in hands. That’s a change.
March 16th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
The smart angels at Zend could time to release a book around the release of ZF 1.0, too!
*** Those crafty devils at Apress timed the recent release of the book to coincide (roughly) with the recent announcement of the 1.0 milestone for symfony.
The book could be releaased under GDFL. But I would like to buy a ‘handy’ hard copy of it!
*** Yes, the book is released under GDFL at http://www.symfony-project.com/book/trunk. This is a fact that we talked about in the author interview to be published in the next week or so. I think it’s great idea and hope that after reading it on-line, people will support the project and authors by buying a printed copy.
December 28th, 2007 at 6:38 am
I am not able to view all the contents for this book rather only one chapter, Please give the link to access all PDF pages for the same. I will have to start with it. Please do me a favor.. to send the link either on stdranwl@rediffmail.com
–Rajeev
June 28th, 2009 at 5:35 am
so should I expect ebook "The Definite Guide to Zend Framework " to be release under the same license ???