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Developing a new web application should not mean reinventing
the wheel. That's why a framework is an essential item in your development
toolbox. It helps you respect coding standards; write bulletproof,
maintainable code; and focus on business rules rather than waste time on
repetitive tasks. This book introduces you to symfony, the leading
framework for PHP developers, showing you how to wield its many features to
develop web applications faster and more efficiently, even if you only know
a bit of PHP.

In The Definitive Guide to symfony, you will learn about the
Model-View-Controller architecture and the crucial role it plays in making
frameworks like symfony possible. The book also covers framework
installation and configuration, and shows you how to build pages, deal with
templates, manage requests and sessions, and communicate with databases and
servers. You will see how symfony can make your life easier by effectively
managing form data, enhancing the user experience with Ajax,
internationalizing applications for a global audience, and using smart
URLs. Authors François Zaninotto and Fabien Potencier put a strong emphasis
on the tools that symfony provides for professional environments, showing
you how to take advantage of unit tests, scaffolding, plug-ins, the command
line, and extensible configuration. And since frameworks often raise
performance-related debate, this book will give you many tips and
techniques for monitoring and improving your application's performance,
from caching to expert configuration tweaks.

Always keen to offer practical instruction, the authors include a lot of
code examples, expert tips, best practices, and illustrations throughout
this book, with the goal of providing a resource that satisfies the
educational needs of symfony's rapidly growing user community.

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Developing a new web application should not mean reinventing the wheel. That s why a framework is an essential item in your development toolbox. It helps you respect coding standards; write bulletproof, maintainable code; and focus on business rules rather than waste time on repetitive tasks. This book introduces you to symfony, the leading framework for PHP developers, showing you how to wield its many features to develop web applications faster and more efficiently, even if you only know a bit of PHP. In The Definitive Guide to symfony, you will learn about the Model-View-Controller architecture and the crucial role it plays in making frameworks like symfony possible. The book also covers framework installation and configuration, and shows you how to build pages, deal with templates, manage requests and sessions, and communicate with databases and servers. You will see how symfony can make your life easier by effectively managing form data, enhancing the user experience with Ajax, internationalizing applications for a global audience, and using smart URLs.Authors Francois Zaninotto and Fabien Potencier put a strong emphasis on the tools that symfony provides for professional environments, showing you how to take advantage of unit tests, scaffolding, plug-ins, the command line, and extensible configuration.

And since frameworks often raise performance-related debate, this book will give you many tips and techniques for monitoring and improving your application s performance, from caching to expert configuration tweaks. Always keen to offer practical instruction, the authors include a lot of code examples, expert tips, best practices, and illustrations throughout this book, with the goal of providing a resource that satisfies the educational needs of symfony s rapidly growing user community.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: For webdevelopers, 16 Feb 2007 By  Jorge Laranjo (Braga, Portugal) - See all my reviews    If you're serious on developing web applications using a PHP Framework (MVC style) then you need to use the symfony framework. And if you do then you'll need this book. It's a very good introduction to this framework. The book is full of code examples, so it's a good place to search for tricks. This book it's permanently on my desktop...  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Exactly what the title says, 2 Jul 2007 By  Mark V. Meany "Mark M." (UK) - See all my reviews    I must start by saying that anyone buying this book is doing so because they have already referenced the online version available from the Symfony web site. There is nothing new in the book, it is a print of the online version and as stated in a previous review a title that will adorn a place on your desk while you familiarise yourself with Symfony. So it gets 5* because I knew _exactly_ what I was buying when I bought it. Covers most of the bases I needed as a newcomer to Symfony. If I had to be critical I would say that the book could do with a front-to-cover example that pulled everything together. As it stands it is a reference manual and not a learn by example kind of book. However the Symfony web site has a perfect tutorial (Askeet) that does just this and the book is an excellent reference while working through it. I would also like to point out that Symfony is a comprehensive framework. There is a learning curve and having a printed book to browse through helps. I spend much of my professional life working with Java frameworks and find the same true there. This book (plus the online tutorial) is as good as any I have read in the Java realm. If you are still not convinced, take a look at the online version. After you have switched windows a hundred times because you keep referencing it I am sure you will agree that a printed copy that you can annotate is worth every penny.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 2 customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews