Sending mails is a web developer's everyday task, and many questions came about the way to do it in symfony 1.1. This article, along with a new cookbook entry dedicated to the subject, goes through the process of sending an email using the great Swift Mailer library.
June 10, 2008
#Tutorials
symfony 1.1 introduces native support for different formats and mime-types. This means that the same model and controller can have different templates based on the requested format.
June 9, 2008
#Tutorials
June 9, 2008
#Releases
Sometimes you need to be able to customize the directory structure provided by symfony. In this post, we will see how to leverage the new configuration system of symfony 1.1 to change the web root, cache, and log directories.
June 9, 2008
#Tutorials
Symfony development slowed a bit this week with less activity than usual. In contrast, symfony has started a huge documentation effort at all levels (book, tutorials, API) in order to continue being the best documented PHP framework.
June 8, 2008
#A week of symfony
During the last weeks, the symfony core team has spent a lot of time polishing the documentation.
June 6, 2008
#Documentation
While symfony 1.1 got some more polishing during this week, Yahoo! published two of the plugins used in applications such as Yahoo! Answers and Yahoo! Bookmarks. Using ysfDimensionsPlugin and ysfR3Plugin your symfony application gains access to the same utilities used by the biggest Internet applications.
June 1, 2008
#A week of symfony
Starting with symfony 1.1, it is now possible to easily use Propel 1.3 in your project to take advantage of its speed improvements, nested set implementation, object instance pooling, among others. Most importantly, Propel 1.3 uses PDO instead of Creole as the DBAL, offering a significant performance boost.
May 30, 2008
#Tutorials
This week, symfony beat another development activity record with more than 210 changesets. Moreover, hundreds of framework's files have been improved with more detailed phpdoc information. Lastly, Symfony has established another awesome milestone with more than 400 public websites made with the framework, including some colossal Yahoo! web applications with more than 100 million users.
May 25, 2008
#A week of symfony
Last week, we've fixed a security bug allowing XSS attacks in certain circumstances. The related ticket was opened more than a year ago.
May 21, 2008