Symfony Blog

This week, the two ORM used by symfony published new important releases: Propel 1.5 Stable and Dotrine 2 Beta 1. Meanwhile, plugins showed an intense development activity, specially CMS related plugins: diem and apostrophe.

Symfony 2 continued this week adding new components: BrowserKit (a client to simulate a real browser) and Finder (which wraps many useful Iterator classes for finding files and directories).

This week Symfony 2 finished the integration of PHPUnit 3.5 for applications. Moreover, Symfony 2 added two new components: DomCrawler (part of the functional test sub-framework) and PhpProcess (runs a PHP script in a forked process).

Symfony 1.X branch fixed some bugs this week before releasing two new maintainance versions (1.3.4 and 1.4.4). Meanwhile, Symfony 2 added a new component called CssSelector, which allows to parse XML documents with CSS selectors.

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This week, symfony project closed 77 bugs, mostly related to symfony 1.X branch and sfDoctrinePlugin. Meanwhile, symfony 1.4 documentation was migrated to Git and the upcoming book "a gentle introduction to symfony 1.4" added a brand-new chapter on forms.

Today, I have migrated the symfony 1.4 documentation from Subversion to Git.

The first in the new series of case studies about running a TV station with symfony was a big success. So without further ado I would like to introduce to you the next in the series: open source hosting company ServerGrove has written a case study about their building of a livechat application with symfony.

This week continued the open discussion about the best approach for controllers in Symfony 2. In addition, symfony 1.X branch committed lots of fixes and Propel 1.5 plugin introduced some new features for its admin generator.

This week Symfony 2 started the conversion of its unit tests from lime to PHPUnit. In addition, an RFC about controllers in Symfony 2 was published.