Books for symfony 1.3/1.4

The symfony 1.3 and 1.4 final releases are just around the corner, and will probably be published next Monday. As you might have noticed, the symfony documentation have also been updated to take into account the changes made in those two new versions.

Getting Started with symfony 1.3 & 1.4

If you are new to symfony, the Getting Started with symfony tutorial is the best way to get started on the right foot. It explains everything you need to know about symfony installation. In a matter of minutes, you will be ready to use symfony and start a new project.

If you have already used a previous symfony version, you should read the following tutorials:

• What's new?: Discover the new features of symfony 1.3 and 1.4;

• Upgrade to 1.3/1.4: Learn about how to upgrade your symfony 1.2 projects to symfony 1.3/1.4;

• Which version of symfony?: If you don't know which version of symfony to use or if you don't understand why two versions of symfony are released at the same time, this tutorial will give you all the answers to your questions;

• Deprecated in 1.3: Learn about deprecated features that have been removed in symfony 1.4.

The symfony 1.3 & 1.4 Reference Guide

The reference guide has been extensively updated and now comes with two new sections: one about the new mailer section of factories.yml and another one describing the module.yml configuration file. The new table of contents reads as follows:

• Introduction
• The YAML Format
• Configuration File Principles
• The settings.yml Configuration File
• The factories.yml Configuration File
• The generator.yml Configuration File
• The databases.yml Configuration File
• The security.yml Configuration File
• The cache.yml Configuration File
• The routing.yml Configuration File
• The app.yml Configuration File
• The filters.yml Configuration File
• The view.yml Configuration File
• Other Configuration Files
• Events
• Tasks
• What's new in symfony 1.3/1.4?
• Upgrading Projects from 1.2 to 1.3/1.4
• Deprecations and removals in 1.3
• Appendix A - License

Practical symfony 1.3 & 1.4

Last year at the same period, we published an advent calendar about building an application with symfony 1.2. The tutorial has been later converted to a book. For symfony 1.3/1.4, we have updated the book and reworked it to make it even better. Of course, there is a new chapter about sending emails, and all other chapters have been reworked to leverage the new features of symfony 1.3 & 1.4:

• Day 1: Starting up the Project
• Day 2: The Project
• Day 3: The Data Model
• Day 4: The Controller and the View
• Day 5: The Routing
• Day 6: More with the Model
• Day 7: Playing with the Category Page
• Day 8: The Unit Tests
• Day 9: The Functional Tests
• Day 10: The Forms
• Day 11: Testing your Forms
• Day 12: The Admin Generator
• Day 13: The User
• Day 14: Feeds
• Day 15: Web Services
• Day 16: The Mailer
• Day 17: Search
• Day 18: AJAX
• Day 19: Internationalization and Localization
• Day 20: The Plugins
• Day 21: The Cache
• Day 22: The Deployment
• Day 23: Another Look at symfony
• Appendix B - License

Feel free to read the new documentation for free online, or help us improving it by buying the printed book on Amazon, or on any other major book seller.