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Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development

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Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development

Overview of this book

With its flexible architecture, the Symfony framework allows you to build modern web applications and web services easily and rapidly. The MVC components separate the logic from the user interface and therefore make developing, changing, and testing your applications much faster. Using Symfony you can minimize repetitive coding tasks, optimize performance, and easily integrate with other libraries and frameworks. Although this framework contains with many powerful features, most developers do not exploit Symfony to its full potential. This book makes it easy to get started and produce a powerful and professional-looking web site utilizing the many features of Symfony. Taking you through a real-life application, it covers all major Symfony framework features without pushing you into too much theoretical detail, as well as throwing some light on the best practices for rapid application development. This book takes you through detailed examples as well as covering the foundations that you will need to get the most out of the Symfony framework. You will learn to shorten the development time of your complex applications and maintain them with ease. You will create several useful plug-ins and add them to your application and automate common tasks. The book also covers best practices and discussions on security and optimization. You will learn to utilize all major features of this framework by implementing them in your application. By the end, you should have a good understanding of the development features of Symfony (for Propel as well as Doctrine editions), and be able to deploy a high-performance web site quite easily.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface

The generated models


Although we have only created five tables, looking in the lib/model folder, and the subfolders of om/ and map/ reveals that there are a total of 25 files. The files that we are interested in are located in the lib/model and lib/model/om folders. The files generated in the lib/model/om folder contain all of the base classes, and the files in the lib/model folder contain the custom classes that extend the base classes.

You will also notice that for each class there is also a corresponding peer class. The peer classes are what we use to query the database, and are referred to as the Data Access Objects (DAOs). Within these classes, there are numerous methods created for us. The non-peer counterpart represents the rows of the table in the result set and provides us with methods to access the data in each row.

The custom classes are where we add our methods to query the database. It is important that we add all our code to the custom classes, and if need be extend the base...