This week the symfony community gathered around the Symfony Day 2010 conference. The event hosted many insightful sessions and the Symfony2 CMF meetup. In addition, a new major component of Symfony2 was introduced: the Firewall component, which provides authentication and authoritation for applications.

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symfony 1 development highlights

Activity summary: 43 changesets, 14 bugs reported, 10 bugs fixed, 7 enhancements suggested, 1 enhancement closed, 2 documentation defects reported, and 13 documentation edits

Symfony2 development highlights

Changelog:

2525998: replaced form field rendering with plain templates
ff683a6, 3bc3115: integrated new data fixtures code
caa9d82: [HttpFoundation] added support for attributes in RequestMatcher

New developers for hire

Scenic City Labs: is a web application development company with 10+ years of experience. We are currently based in Chattanooga, TN. We use symfony for the majority of our projects but can custom tailer any application to whatever you desire.
Tejaswi Sharma (tej.nri@gmail.com): I am Tejaswi Sharma and I am working in PHP/MySql/Apache for 4 years and symfony for 2 years. Feel free to contact me if you have any issues in symfony.

New plugins

themeTwentyten: TwentyTen Wordpress theme version under symfony sfThemePlugin.
sfPrintableForm: Make a form printable version.
sfPLValidators: Provides validation of polish specific codes (NIP, Polish tax identification number and Pesel, Polish human identification number)
acHostDependant: provides the ability to have different configuration depending on the hostname.
fpBackup: (no description)
pokretWidgetFormDateTimeWithAmPm: (no description)

Updated plugins

sfDoctrineActAsSignable:
- added sfDoctrineGuardPlugin behavior
sfDoctrineActAsTaggable:
- added query method to fetch tags and tagging counts for various a set of taggable models
- modified TagTable::queryTagsWithCountsByModel to be more compatible with existing doctrine relations
- fixed Iterators for escaped arrays stop when a false value is encountered
- added function to merge two tags
tdCore:
- improvements in tdSubpage
ExtjsGenerator:
- fixed sorting route generated url
- added listpanel loader
- added Listview CheckboxSelection ux and checkbox selection support to ListView
- updated ListView RowActions css
- added ListView override to fix a bug with IE (can be removed when ExtJs 3.3.0 is released)
- added ListView support to batch actions
- added tasks to create admin modules in an existing plugin
sfPHPUnit2:
- refactored loading of sfApplicationConfiguration instance
- added helper method for debugging
sfFormExtra:
- fixed the impossibility to remove the value for the sfWidgetFormJQueryAutocompleter
srPageChooser:
- removed srValidatorSlug (deprecated by aValidatorSlug)
- cleaned up the widget class
- fixed javascript error on button click
- allowed for output escaping to be turned on
sfAssetsLibrary:
- new helper for ckeditor browser
- updated readme with instructions how to use sfAssetsLibraryPlugin as CKEditor file browser without other Plugin
sfCKEditor:
- updated readme waiting for deploymet of sfAssetsLibraryPlugin with CK Editor addon
sfI18nFormExtractor:
- now translates help messages from forms
sfAtosPayment:
- fixed some syntax bugs
apostrophe:
- initial version of aTagAdmin
- styled the feedback you get after using the Replace File feature
- if the update's timestamp is no good, don't attempt to strtotime() it
- moved the ajax submit function to a.js to get it out of the edit partial
- created apostrophe.linkToRemote so we can begin replacing all of those inline jq_link_to_remote() functions
- working on getting editing working correctly in the four-up view in Media
- added disqus partial includes to layout.php
- made it easier to override default behavior of aCategoryAdmin
- page editing permissions have been completely overhauled (a big win for large sites with many editors)
- slideshow slots now support displaying everything with certain categories and tags as an alternative to browsing for individual images
- removed Image slot
- renamed Slideshow slot in BaseaTools as the first step to unifying aImage and aSlideshow
- updated instructions for choosing a photo or photos with the slideshow slot
- new aMediaItem::getImageAvailable method is preferred to checking for a width before trying to display a thumbnail
- fixed some of the default dimensions issues in the button slot
- adjusted four-up behavior for non-images
- created active states for the View settings so you know which one is selected
- the new view permissions are roughed in and working
- fixed potential bug in category merging
- added category merging to tag admin
- moved slide show image ordering into Slot classes
apostropheBlog:
- integrated disqus comments
- added orderBy to aEventActions:buildQuery
- added 'Preview' to the Blog and Events admin
- added a max_per_page setting to aBlog and aEvent in app.yml
- BlogItem::getMediaForAreas() now respects slide show ordering

New symfony powered websites

Blidoo: (English) a generalist classified ads site
dramadance.pl: (Polish) website of an entertainment company
EticWeb: (French) our site offers to reduce the carbon footprint of individuals while minimizing travel-related purchases, sales and barter of goods and services
Reflector Guide: (English, Spanish, Finnish, Russian) site about pedestrian reflectors
Työkyvyntuki: (Finnish) work ability service for medium sized companies
MediaBurse.ru: (Russian) place where journalists and publishers buy\sell articles
InterScientia.com: (English, Finnish, French, Russian, Swedish) a Workshop for All Men And Women Seeking to Share Knowledge Across Borders

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A week of symfony #197 (4->10 October 2010)