Jonathan Wage has written an excellent post on the symfony-project blog showing how easy it is to get a new symfony project up and running with symfony 1.2 and Doctrine ORM.

Today’s special guest is Stefan Koopmanschap. Stefan is web application developer and professional services consultant for Ibuildings.nl. He is the initiator of the SymfonyCamp event in 2007, and is also trying to promote symfony in The Netherlands with his local website symfony-framework.nl. His own website can be found at www.leftontheweb.com

If you are working with the symfony framework, or interested in getting to know the framework, then here is your chance. After a successful “PHP Bootcamp” in June, Dutch Open Projects now organizes SymfonyCamp, a three-day event on Symfony.

p. Fabien Potencier has recently announced the release of symfony 1.0.3 on the symfony project blog.

p. Spindrop has posted the second part of their series on using Zend_Search_Lucene from within Symfony. This article shows readers how to pretty everything up.

p. Spindrop has just posted a new tutorial on how to use the new sfZendPlugin to bring the power of Zend_Lucene into your symfony project.

p. Jonathan Wage, a developer at Centresource.com pinged me on IM to let me know that their latest project, symfony-forge.com is now live.

p. Frameworks are everywhere in the PHP community these days. Different frameworks fill different needs and have different personalities behind them. Recently I had the opportunity to talk with Francois Zaninotto and Fabien Potencier, the driving forces behind the symfony framework. Not too long ago, symfony released their 1.0 milestone version. They have also released their extensive documentation in print from Apress, as well as on the web.

p. Continuing in their tradition of having their finger on the pulse of PHP, apress has recently released their latest title, “The Definitive Guide to symfony”.

p. Click on inside, I’ll share with you the details of the latest in the Symphony Framework beta release.