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The symfony Reference Guide: The new book about symfony by Fabien Potencier – July 19, 2009 – 8 comments

I expected the new symfony book to be available sooner, but some mistakes on my side delayed it for a while. The symfony Reference Guide book is now available. As always, you can read the online version right now for free, or buy the printed version. At only $19.90, it is also a great way to donate to the symfony project.

The "Pratical symfony" book is a great way for a beginner to learn symfony, understand how it works, and also see best web development practices in action. But when you begin working on your own projects, you need a reference guide. A book where you can easily find answers to your questions at your fingertips. The Symfony 1.2 Reference Guide book aims to provide such a guide. It acts as a complementary book to Practical symfony. This is a book you will keep with you whenever you develop with symfony. This book is the fastest way to find every available configuration thanks to a very detailed table of contents, an index of terms, cross-references inside the chapters, tables, and much more.

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#1 Matthieu said on the 2009/07/19 at 10:28

Two words: thank you. Now I have something to do during my holidays :-)
#2 Massimiliano Arione said on the 2009/07/19 at 11:08

I already started Italian translation, and asked help of Italian community to get it done as soon as possible
#3 Éric Rogé said on the 2009/07/19 at 11:08

Just so great, it'll be very handy.

My symfony book collection is getting bigger and bigger.
#4 Ryan said on the 2009/07/19 at 14:28

Great! I hope you guys keep the books coming! Nothing replaces having a physical copy of these.
#5 Crafty_Shadow said on the 2009/07/19 at 17:40

Just had a quick look, none of the inside links work, because they assume the chapter would simply be it's number, while (for no apparent reason) its en-<chapter_number>-<chapter_name>. I can understand the chapter name, but "en" is redundant. All internal links need to be updated.
#6 jms said on the 2009/07/20 at 07:05

hi,

Thanks for the book. Does it contain the description of the symfony classes, like in a "in a nutshell" oreilly book ?
#7 John said on the 2009/07/20 at 13:55

Thanks for this, found my first gem:

list:
hide: []

I was always using 'display' just to get rid of one col, doh!
#8 fkilian said on the 2009/08/03 at 10:39

just curious