Symfony General

symfony is an open-source PHP web framework

http://www.symfony-project.org/

http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/

Based on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.

Symfony provides a lot of features seamlessly integrated together, such as:

In addition to tutorials and showcase apps (screencast of the ajax tutorial / best PHP code generation engine for your backend interfaces), symfony has an extensive documentation.

http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php/m/20458/#msg_20458

after reviewing more than 10 PHP Frameworks, the "best PHP code generation engine for your backend interfaces" showcase screencast hooked me up right away.

Moreover, I was about to go for those "do not depend on anything" frameworks because I was afraid that such versatile system, that make use many best existing components, would be hard to install. But I was wrong, and I'm really glad that I was wrong — pasting 2 commands into my terminal, less than 2 minutes later, I have my Symfony fully installed! Everything is just amazing.

documented on: 2007.01.27

> OK, after pasting 2 commands into my terminal, I have my Symfony
> installed. but where is it? Ie. which url can I access it?

Symfony is a framework, a collection of class an library to help you to create web-applications. So, after the pear install, you can't directly "access" to symfony.

You have to create a workspace, with a project and application(s) inside this one :-)

Look at the first day of the askeet tuto, all is well explained !

aruban