A week of symfony #28 (09->15 July 2007)

We are happy to welcome a new blogger at symfony-project.com. Javier Eguiluz, well known for its activity on symfony.es, will try to blog regularily about the news in the symfony world, continuing the "week of symfony" series that the earliest adopter already know.

Below is his first post, so please welcome him warmly!

Development highlights

• r4562: refactored the view sub-framework (added 2 new classes: sfViewParameterHolder and sfEscapedViewParameterHolder)
• r4578: removed usage of cache system for generators and configuration files
• r4579: refactored cache framework (new cache interface, added new cache classes, i18n cache is now configurable in factories.yml)
• r4583: [routing] Made it possible to have a token after a dot separator with a defined suffix (more permissive token name)
• r4586: added getLifetime() and getBackend() methods to sfCache
• r4590: removed sfMessageCache class
• r4592: moved controller logic from the view to the execution filter
• r4593: changed all ->getContext() calls to ->context in base classes
• r4594: autoloading refactoring
• r4597: standardized exception messages
• r4598: simplified factory config handler
• r4603: refactored page and action cache
• r4606: moved all validation logic from the handleAction() to the validateAction() in sfExecutionFilter
• ...and many other changes

Book and documentation

• Advances in polish, russian, czech, french and spanish translations of the book

Wiki

• New Job Postings:
  • Symfony Developer - full time - Moscow, Russia (more info)
  • Symfony Developer - full time - Glendale, California (more info)
• New developers for hire:
  • Zenan Labs (India)
  • Serg Kalachev [serg (at) kalachev.ru] (Russia)
• New symfony blogger:
  • My Symfony Lessons (website, feed)

Plugins

• Updated sfPokaYokePlugin
• Updated sfCaptchaPlugin
• Updated sfFormValidationPlugin
• Updated sfMediaLibraryPlugin

Some new symfony powered websites

• Country Life Country Life magazine's website and premium property search engine.
• House to Home A home design and decoration portal.
• Managing Software Solutions Group Web software development company.

They talked about us

• Symfony Cheat-Sheet - Validagco no Servidor
• Installation Symfony on GoDaddy Virtual Dedicated Server
• Installing Symfony in Mac with MAMP
• Presentacisn Symfony en el grupo PHP de Houston
• symfony: bash auto completion