Symfony2 PR5 released

January 17, 2011 • Published by Fabien Potencier

I have just released Symfony2 PR5.

As announced in my previous post, the first release candidate should be out soon, so I have decided to tag this release "PR", instead of "beta" to keep things simple.

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Comments

ertan said on Jan 17, 2011 at 10:26

I am waiting symfony2 impatiently for my next project.

Fabrice said on Jan 17, 2011 at 12:59

Thank you Fabien and the Symfony team!

I learned so much about PHP by dissecting the core Symfony code. Coming from a game developer perspective, it was a completely different "paradigm". It took me a while to get my head around backend/front end programming. I was a fool and rebuilt my own framework from scratch by pretty much copying all the core (controller, response, request,...) from Symfony. I just threw away all the things I didn't need. In retrospect it was silly, but I learned a lot about PHP.

I continually am amazed at how the code is built. I have used Symfony's codebase countless times for inspiration when writing my own code, and researching programming patterns and such. I wish Fabien wasn't so busy on Symfony that he could write more insightful posts on his own blog :) But I can learn from Symfony 2's code either way.

I plan to start a business this year, turning a side project into a profitable web app. I'm going to rebuild my site from scratch, ditching my "lightweight" version of Symfony, to use the full featured Symfony 2.0 (plus YUI 3 eventually, currently using YUI 2.8.0).

I'm glad to hear the donation drive was a success.

I can't wait to get started!