The Definitive Guide to Symfony and symfony 1.0 RC1 released
We are very proud to announce the official release of The Definitive Guide to Symfony, a book that myself and Fabien spent the last months writing. The 490 pages of this book explain all you need to know from starting up symfony to managing a symfony application, with a lot of practical examples and expert tips. It is available in bookstores right now; if you want to order it online, we suggest our publisher's website or amazon.com.
The book is released under a GFDL license, which means that anybody can download the book's content for free. This shouldn't discourage you from buying it though, because the work involved in writing it is really worth its price! The documentation section of the symfony project website has been updated to allow users to browse this book instead of the old documentation. So if you would like to check the book's content before actually buying it, head to the documentation section.
The book's content has been committed to the symfony subversion repository, which should facilitate typo correction and updates. Additionally, given the license of the book, any translation effort lead by the community is greatly facilitated. By the way, we enabled Markdown formatting in the wiki, so you can keep the original formatting in translated versions.
Some lucky symfonians already received their copy of the book a few days ago, but unfortunately we only received ours today. The book is said to be quite good, although we would like to check it personally before recommending it... That's why we kindly ask all the people who have read it to give us their feedback.
We also tagged the 1.0 RC1 release today. We are getting very close to a 1.0 stable, and currently looking for help in bug-hunting. If you are willing to give us a bit of your time, download this release, test it, and report any blocking bug that you may notice.
We hope you will appreciate our work, and we wish you a very pleasant reading.
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Great work folks! Keep on going!!
cu Nyger
This is a huge milestone for Symfony.
Too bad I won't be able to cut and paste changes into the book! I know bad humor
Just ordered my copy from Amazon, so I'll have to patiently wait till the end of Feb. :) Anyway, looking forward to getting my hands on it.
And as blue25, asked, any chance for the PDF downloadable version? The sample chapter you released looks really great, comparing to the HTML version.
Does it occur to anybody that F&F never got lost in some sidetracks but always steered a clear, direct path in development? Very impressive!
Keep on writing|coding|committing!
It already looks cool on the picture, so I'm sure it will be worth the money getting it :)
however, the book looks fantastic from what i've read so far and of course i've ordered the paper version already :)
[code]imhotep pminnieur # pear upgrade symfony/symfony-beta
downloading symfony-1.0.0rc1.tgz ...
Starting to download symfony-1.0.0rc1.tgz (1,908,284 bytes)
..................done: 1,908,284 bytes
Could not chmod /usr/share/php/docs/symfony/.tmpLICENSE to 644 chmod(): No such file or directory
ERROR: commit failed[/code]
Ma procrastination va pouvoir prendre fin, j'attends de le recevoir (et aussi beaucoup le lancement de la V1.0) pour lancer dans mon nouveau projet en attente avec Symfony.
Bientôt un nouvel utilisateur en plus pour votre framework, gare à vos fesses s'il ne me plait pas :)
Translation for the english people there: GREAT! :)
Fantastic job...thanks from italy!
I'm actually frustrated not having time to work with symfony, but it's on my 2007 wishlist !
Gratz
Looking forward to getting the book in germany!
If you buy the printed book, you can get the eBook for $10, rather than $20. Check out the back cover for details. (-;
tnx fabien keep up the good work
The book is well organized, and PHP developers should find it very easy to understand.
I got the book on Jan 24rd from an online store that did not wait until Feb 1st to ship it.
The release of the book and the 1.0 version will sure speed up the adoption of the framework.
I would only add a few more short examples of applications for beginners.
I frankly don't know where Francois and Fabien find time to both develop the Framework and write the book. Amazing!
Congratulations!
Déjá commandé sur Amazon, c'est un livre indispensable! Votre logiciel est super puissant!
cheers from Hungary!
Thx
My copy arrived yesterday and I have to say: that's what I've waited for.
Symfony is a great framework, easy to use if you know what you can do and how you can do it.
Do you plan to translate "The Book" to foreign (i mean, non-english) languages ?
Thanks for all you work, your framework is really great.
just like adriaan, I think the old way for getting specific information in the online doc was easier (with the keyword list etc.).
Thanks for any kind reply.
Regards,
dreadwarrior