July 30 – August 5, 2007 A Week of Symfony #31

Symfony released 1.0.6 version this week and included the new CLI system with lots of improvements. Symfony 1.1 will also include a new form/validation/fillin layer that maintains compatibility with actual mechanism.

Symfony community keeps enhancing the framework with tons of new plugins and updates to existing plugins. Book translations progress significantly and add a new language: dutch.

Development mailing list

• Symfony 1.1 will have a new form/validation/fillin layer.
• Discussions about improving plugins, etag feature and propel performance

Development highlights

• r4743: New CLI system (removed pake dependency, added a new command/ directory with classes to deal with command line applications, added unit tests for command/, added some simple tests for tasks/)
• r4747: changed the default CLASS as the default sfContext class in getInstance() method
• r4748: moved some code from symfony.php to sfCore
• r4751: added magic method toString() in label_for() helper
• r4752: fixed sfZendPlugin is broken
• r4758: released symfony 1.0.6
• Updated mahono branch
• ...and many other changes

Development digest: 76 changesets, 19 defects created, 11 defects closed, 15 enhancements created, 7 enhancement closed, 1 documentation defect created, 201 documentation edits.

Book and documentation

• Advances in french translation of Askeet tutorial
• Advances in polish, czech, french, russian, dutch and deutsch translations of the book

Approximate status of book translations: spanish (99%), polish (73%), french (42%), italian (31%), chinese (31%), russian (26%), brazilian portuguese (15%), deutsch (15%), dutch (5%), japanese (-).

Wiki

• New developers for hire:
  • Dutch Open Projects: we specialize in Joomla! and Symfony development, as well as Symfony consulting.
• New symfony blogger:
  • MichaÅ‚Mech.pl (website, feed)

Plugins

• New plugins
  • sfISBNPlugin: gives you functionality for searching for books on amazon, looking up isbns, converting between isbn10 and isbn13 and retrieving offers from different vendors for certain books/isbns
  • sfThreeColumnLayoutHelperPlugin: allows you to easily create a three column layout and have slots that can be easily defined and moved around
  • sfTabbedContentPlugin: allows you to easily create tabbed content in your application
  • sfShortcutsPlugin: a library of symfony shortcuts
  • sfRequestHistoryPlugin: allows you to redirect user's back to previous pages without relying on the browser's (often unreliable) referer header
  • sfPrinterFriendlyPlugin: this plugin is basically what the title says
  • sfContentGetterPlugin: allows you to get the result of partials, components and actions
  • sfFormBuilderPlugin: allows you to build forms easily
  • sfDataGridPlugin: allows you to show grids of data
  • sfEmailImageGeneratorPlugin: generates images for masking emails and preventing spam
  • sfPageFlowPlugin: allows you to easily create complex page workflows
  • sfSimpleForum_PayloadFilterChainPlugin: enhances the sfSimpleForumPlugin, allowing it to make use of sfPayloadFilterChain capabilities
  • sfPluginManagerPlugin: initialize new plugin directories with all the necessary folder structures and files
  • sfWSDLPlugin: provides support for Web Services Description Language
• Updated plugins
  • sfPropelActAsNestedSetBehaviorPlugin (provides nested set capabilities to Propel objects): implemented more reliable deleteDescendants() method
  • sfSwiftPlugin (provides e-mail sending capabilities through the use of the SwiftMailer library): add sfSwiftMailerBridge and remove swift library
  • sfZendPlugin (contains the Zend Framework): updated to Zend Framework 1.0.1
  • sfDoctrinePlugin (integrates Doctrine ORM): several bugfixes and updated Doctrine external
  • sfYUIPlugin (contains the Yahoo! UI JavaScript libraries): rebuild plugin to PEAR package
  • sfDoctrineCommentsPlugin: fixed issue with creating root and adding children
  • sfFacebookPlatformPlugin (makes it easier to use the facebook platform in your symfony application): embedded CSS partial
  • sfSimpleBlogPlugin: several bugfixes

Some new symfony powered websites

• SMAEMV: (french) public agency which take charge of Mont Ventoux Area
• Pastebin.biz: another pastebin using AJAX.

They talked about us

• Una semana con Symfony #3 (23-29 Julio 2007)
• Symfony Yeni yine yeniden...
• A Pragmatic Look At Symfony
• A week of symfony #30 (23->29 July 2007)日本語訳
• Se publica Symfony 1.0.6
• symfony 1.0.6がリリースされました
• Los Frameworks de PHP agilizan tu trabajo
• [Symfony]: Rilasciata la 1.0.6
• A Pragmatic Look At Symfony
• Comment sont définies les actions ?
• スマートなメールの送りかた
• Tip di configurazione
• sfPageFlowPlugin, workflows complejos en Symfony
• Symfony raggiunge la versione 1.0.6
• Résumons / Essayons
• sfPageFlowプラグイン公開しました
• FBML and embedded CMS
• installing the Symfony plugin sfSimpleCMS
• Instalando symfony en windows
• Nuevos tutoriales de Symfony