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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


In this chapter, we have learned how to handle more complicated M-N database relations, and how to add an autocomplete feature with little AJAX help. This knowledge will allow us to make better and more useful admin areas, and to create pages that can be used and managed easily. It is worth remembering that modern JavaScript libraries allow us to create professional effects very easily, and Symfony often makes this task even simpler. Creating M-N relations is very quick and easy, and can also save a lot of time that we would have to spend on coding and testing our own solutions. A very flexible admin generator along with a form handling system is one of the main advantages of Symfony.