The symfony book

• Read me first

symfony 101

• Symfony at a glance
• Installing symfony
• Project creation
• File structure explained
• MVC implementation explained
  • The Model
  • Actions and the front controller
  • Templates and view components
  • View Configuration
• Configuration files
  • How they work
  • What they do
• Templating in practice
  • Link helpers
  • Form helpers
  • Javascript helpers
  • Date and number helpers
  • Other helpers
• Routing
• Cache
• I18n and multilinguism
• Security
• Parameter Holders
• Extending symfony
  • Custom extensions
  • Plug-ins

developer tools

• Command line interface (CLI)
• Scaffolding
• Admin generator
• Web debug toolbar
• Project control panel
• Unit tests
• Deployment

how to...

• configure a web server
• install symfony on IIS
• populate a database
• speed up a slow website
• translate a project
• write a batch process
• validate a form
• fill in a form
• manage a user session
• make persistent sessions with cookies
• restrict access to users
• build a syndication feed
• send an email
• upload a file
• paginate a list
• make a list sortable
• install or create a plug-in
• manage a shopping cart
• add a custom extension
• display a custom 404 error page
• locate a file