1. Discovering Symfony2
Noël GUILBERT

2. A bit of history

3. • symfony 1 started as a glue of existing open source
librairies:
–Prado, Propel, Mojavi
• Adopted concepts from other frameworks
–Routing, I18N, Forms
• Added some new concepts:
–Web debug toolbar, admin-generator

4. Symfony components, a set of standalone librairies
–Templating
–Dependency Injection
–YAML
–Routing
–Output Escaper
– and more…

5. symfony 1.4: released in November 2009
• Improved the usability
• Removed the deprecated features
• It’s the current LTS release, maintained until 2012

6. What is Symfony2?

7. It’s a major evolution of symfony 1

8. It’s based on the knowledge of symfony 1:
Same concepts, only better

9. Same concepts
• MVC
• Full featured
• Great developer tools
• Configurable

10. Better
• Faster
• Easier
• More extensible
• More configurable
• More interoperable
• Based on the new features of PHP 5.3

11. Do not reinvent the wheel !

12. Symfony2 uses some of the bests PHP components:
• Doctrine2
•Propel
•PHPUnit
•Zend_Log
•SwiftMailer

13. Better architecture
•No more projects, applications, modules, plugins
•Everything must be implemented as a bundle

14. Developer friendly
•Better error handling
•Improved Web Debug Toolbar
•Profiling
•Testing

15. Symfony 2 is not just about code

16. A dedicated website and documentation:
www.symfony-reloaded.org

17. Symfony live:
The dedicated community event

18. Open-sources bundles
www.symfony2bundles.org

19. Is Symfony 2 ready for your projects ?

20. Hum, not yet

21. A stable release is planed for late 2010

22. Questions?
Noël GUILBERT
noel.guilbert@sensio.com
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