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New in Symfony 2.3: Small things matter

by Fabien Potencier – May 17, 2013

What happened last week in Symfony?

This week, the new Symfony 2.3 branch was created. In addition, the first Symfony 2.3 release candidate version was published, which includes tons of great small improvements. Lastly, one of the biggest Symfony events of the year, the Symfony Live Portland 2013 conference, will take place next week.

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The Symfony Community organizes events all over the world on a regular basis. Here are the next ones.

Netherlands, Utrecht — Symfony Meetup - Netherlands/Utrecht

on May 22, 2013, from 19:00 to 22:00

France, Montpellier — eZ UnConference #2

from May 27, 2013 to May 29, 2013

Germany, München — Symfony User Group München

on June 05, 2013, from 18:30 to 22:30

Germany, Köln — Symfony User Group Cologne steht an!

on June 05, 2013, from 19:00 to 22:00
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The "symfony Forms in Action" book is online
by Fabien Potencier – June 18, 2008 – 20 comments

I know that many of you were waiting for this news for so long, and I would like to thank you for your patience.

So, after several weeks of thorough work on writing and polishing the documentation for the new form framework, I'm happily ready to announce the availability of the first four chapters of the "symfony Forms in Action" book:

These chapters cover everything you need to get started. If you are a developer, you can read all chapters, from 1 to 4. If you are more of a web designer, then you probably only need to read chapter 3 to learn how to layout forms.

As symfony is made by French people, I'm pretty happy to announce that the book is also available in French:

Even if the four first chapters cover all the features that were available with the form system of symfony 1.0, more chapters are in the works to describe more advanced features. For the curious ones, here is the full table of contents:

Chapter 1 - Form Creation
Chapter 2 - Form Validation
Chapter 3 - Forms for Web Designers
Chapter 4 - Propel Integration
Chapter 5 - Advanced Forms
Chapter 6 - Nested Forms
Chapter 7 - Advanced Forms for Web Designers
Chapter 8 - Internationalisation and Localisation
Chapter 9 - Extending your Forms
Chapter 10 - Use with other frameworks
Appendix A - Bundled Widgets
Appendix B - Bundled Validators

I hope you will enjoy reading this book and that you will learn a lot from it. And please, don't hesitate to give us your feedback or ideas on how to improve the book. If you find typos, you can also submit a ticket on the trac system.

I also want to thank Dustin who spent the last few nights proofreading the book.

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#1 Nicolas said on the 2008/06/18 at 12:46

Bel effort la traduction en franÃ§ais.
#2 Sebastien said on the 2008/06/18 at 13:10

J'attendais ca depuis longtemps :)

ps : petite erreur dans l'article le titre du 4eme chapitre en franÃ§ais est pas le bon :)
#3 Raphael said on the 2008/06/18 at 13:21

Great, thanks for all this work!
-RAPHAEL
#4 zero0x said on the 2008/06/18 at 13:57

cool! thank you!
#5 IsRobot said on the 2008/06/18 at 14:00

Excellent news! I have been waiting for this. Now I just have to wait for the next few chapters to do nested forms :)
#6 coder said on the 2008/06/18 at 14:33

Many thanks!!
#7 obalais said on the 2008/06/18 at 15:02

C'est fou que l'annonce de la sortie du livre "symfony Forms in Action" puisse me rendre aussi heureux !

Thanks to the team !
#8 Taku said on the 2008/06/18 at 15:30

So, so, so great news ...
Heavy and loud thanks and congratulations to you Fabien (and to all the ones who worked on this).
That community is just awesome.
#9 Dejan Spasic said on the 2008/06/18 at 16:54

Great news! Thanks a lot for this work!
#10 Garfield-fr said on the 2008/06/18 at 17:19

Merci beaucoup pour le challenge ;)
#11 [MA]Pascal said on the 2008/06/18 at 17:22

Bel effort de traduction en anglais ;)
#12 PaweÅ‚ Ryznar said on the 2008/06/18 at 19:27

will be the pdf version avalilable
#13 mcz said on the 2008/06/19 at 00:12

thats why, this is the best framework ever :) excellent docs...
#14 moreilla said on the 2008/06/19 at 11:35

I am dying to see this document. I love symfony~~
#15 Steffen said on the 2008/06/19 at 16:24

Very nice documentation ... looking forward to the next chapters, and a good read.
#16 b00giZm said on the 2008/06/19 at 16:45

Thx Fabien!!!

Finally the documentation I was waiting for a long time :) Great work!
#17 Youri said on the 2008/06/19 at 21:23

This is sooooo fantastic! Thanks!!!
#18 lnk said on the 2008/06/19 at 23:58

Chouette!
Je me rÃ©jouis de lire tout Ã§a. Merci Ã toute l'Ã©quipe qui a travaillÃ© sur ce book!
#19 Maxwell said on the 2008/06/22 at 19:22

Is there a place we can view the development versions of the next chapters? I can't wait for chapter 6! :)
#20 ken said on the 2008/06/24 at 02:26

me too, im also looking forward for nested forms. especially handling dynamically added form sections via javascript