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All about Symfony releases, new Symfony features, and other important announcements

NetBeans, the open-source development environment sponsored by Sun, is planning to include support for PHP frameworks in its upcoming versions. As there are so many PHP frameworks, NetBeans developers have organized a public election to choose the two PHP frameworks that will be initially supported.
September 11, 2008
Symfony continued this week adding cool new features for the upcoming 1.2 version. The routing framework will be refactored to allow further customization and complete RESTful architecture. In addition, Propel plugin development showed an immense activity during this week.
September 7, 2008 #A week of symfony
Jon wants to validate a form value but the validation depends on another form field. As Jon does not know how to do it with symfony 1.1, he called the expert. This post will explain how to accomplish this kind of conditional validation by using a post validator.
September 5, 2008 #Call the expert #Tutorials
Yesterday, I have committed the first slew of changes to the routing framework. Thanks to this refactoring, developers have new opportunities to customize the routing and this will allow very cool features in the very near future. But today, let's dive into the goodness of the symfony 1.2 routing framework.
September 4, 2008 #Living on the edge #Tutorials
As for every symfony version, we try to simplify the API and make it more intuitive and powerful. Here are some examples that you will soon enjoy in symfony 1.2.
September 2, 2008 #Living on the edge
This week, the refactorization of the web debug toolbar was completed, resulting in a much more powerful and flexible tool. In addition, this week started the refactorization of the admin generator, which will include ideas suggested by symfony users. Development activity of the plugins was also remarkable, especially for sfPropelPlugin and DbFinderPlugin.
August 31, 2008 #A week of symfony
The symfony web debug toolbar is one of the developer best friend. It is always conveniently accessible in the browser when using the development environment. It gives you everything you need to know about the current page and ease the debugging of your applications. Until now, all the information available in this toolbar were hardcoded. But as of symfony 1.2, the web debug toolbar is entirely configurable.
With three major symfony versions, newcomers have sometimes a hard time figuring out which version to use for their next project.
August 26, 2008
The end of the year will be very interesting for the symfony project with a lot of opportunities to meet the community and to learn symfony.
August 25, 2008 #Community
Symfony 1.2 is due to release in few weeks and therefore its development is accelerating. This week, Propel 1.3 was added as the default Propel version and the web debug toolbar was refactorized. In addition, development of symfony framework achieved 11000th changeset milestone.
August 24, 2008 #A week of symfony