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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

Summary


Symfony's form framework is another fantastic feature that helps developers with the tedious task of writing forms. Whether it is a Propel-based form or a simple form, creating forms and validating them is simple and rapid, not to mention more object orientated too. We created our own formatting class that produced a nice-looking prototype, and then progressed to create a fully-customized form.

We have seen how useful plugins are, but there is not a plugin for everything. Here we introduced you to Swift Mailer for sending out emails and integrated it into our application with a minimum effort, again showing you how Symfony can be expanded to use the other third-party libraries.

We then converted our signup module into a fully-working plugin. This demonstrated that when you build other web applications, you should write more generic and loosely coupled code so that it can be packaged up and reused in other projects.