Symfony development steadily progresses towards 1.1 version and prepares for major refactoring during following weeks. Plugins list adds up 108 plugins, with 3 more plugins released this week. Symfony's marketplace grows with new job offers and devolpers for hire all around the world.

This week we've also known that symfony 1.1 will feature a new polished and revamped CLI. Although all the old tasks will work as in symfony 1.0, the new tasks will be bundled in namespaces (for example propel:build-all, propel:insert-sql, i18n:find), will use more meaningful names (for example log:clear, generate:module, generate:controller) and will output useful and complete information about their use.

Development mailing list

The symfony trunk is and will be a bit unstable for the next couple of weeks especially when Fabien will begin the refactoring of the form handling layer.
Details of the new symfony CLI

Development highlights

r4710: changed logger constants to class constants (for example SF_LOG_DEBUG is now sfLogger::DEBUG)
r4720: created pake release 1.1.4 for the upcoming symfony 1.0.6, r4721: switched to pake 1.1.4
r4730: removed the name of exceptions (as the name is always the class name, it is unneeded)
r4732, r4733: added a new sfConsoleLogger class and a new sfConsoleColorizer class
r4742: removed config/constants.php and replaced it with sfCore::initDirectoryLayout()
Updated mahono and dwhittle branches
...and many other changes

Development digest: 43 changesets, 22 defects created, 5 defects closed, 12 enhancements created, 5 enhancements closed, 160 documentation edits.

Book and documentation

Advances in french translation of Askeet tutorial and french translation of "My First Project"
Advances in polish, czech, deutsch and french translations of the book

Approximate status of book translations: spanish (99%), polish (63%), italian (31%), chinese (31%), russian (26%), french (21%), brazilian portuguese (15%), deutsch (5%), japanese (-).

Wiki

New Job Postings:
- Symfony Developer - full time - Dresden, Germany (more info, contact: jobs [at] seto-gmbh [dot] de)
- Symfony Developer - full time - Paris, France (more info, contact: drh [at] clever-age.com [dot] com)
- Symfony Project Manager - full time - Paris, France (more info, contact: drh [at] clever-age.com [dot] com)
New developers for hire:
- TechJini Solutions Pvt Ltd: Bangalore (India) based firm run by geeks. Have done most of the projects in symfony, struts, RCP, XUL, VC++, mysql and more
- Ernitech Consulting Group Pte Ltd: based in Singapore. We have been amazed and delighted with the capabilities of symfony and use it for all projects where the customer does not specify the programming language.

Plugins

New plugins
- sfSiteMapPlugin: builds a module listing all the links for a given application, based on the "php reflection" feature.
- sfMarkdownPlugin: parses and converts text written with Markdown sintax into HTML
- sfCombineFilterPlugin: it makes your pages load faster by automatically combining and compressing javascript and css files.
- Initial entry for new (beta) plugins: sfAmazonECSPlugin, sfCommissionJunctionPlugin and sfISBNPlugin.
Updated plugins
- sfFormValidationPlugin (provides client-side form validation): new 1.0.5.1 version
- sfDoctrinePlugin (integrates doctrine ORM into symfony): updated externals for Doctrine to latest revision
- sfMediaLibraryPlugin (provides an easy-to-use interface to manage web assets like images, PDF documents, Flash objects): several bugs fixed

Some new symfony powered websites

MatpoÅ¼: (poland) supplier of equipment for fire-brigades
e4s.co.uk: (uk) an online job board for students
Werner Krause BaugeschÃ¤ft GmbH: (germany) website of a (re-)construction company in Berlin

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Published in #A week of symfony

A week of symfony #30 (23->29 July 2007)

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