The "symfony Forms in Action" book is online

June 18, 2008 · Published by

Fabien Potencier

I know that many of you were waiting for this news for so long, and I would like to thank you for your patience.

So, after several weeks of thorough work on writing and polishing the documentation for the new form framework, I'm happily ready to announce the availability of the first four chapters of the "symfony Forms in Action" book:

These chapters cover everything you need to get started. If you are a developer, you can read all chapters, from 1 to 4. If you are more of a web designer, then you probably only need to read chapter 3 to learn how to layout forms.

As symfony is made by French people, I'm pretty happy to announce that the book is also available in French:

Even if the four first chapters cover all the features that were available with the form system of symfony 1.0, more chapters are in the works to describe more advanced features. For the curious ones, here is the full table of contents:

Chapter 1 - Form Creation
Chapter 2 - Form Validation
Chapter 3 - Forms for Web Designers
Chapter 4 - Propel Integration
Chapter 5 - Advanced Forms
Chapter 6 - Nested Forms
Chapter 7 - Advanced Forms for Web Designers
Chapter 8 - Internationalisation and Localisation
Chapter 9 - Extending your Forms
Chapter 10 - Use with other frameworks
Appendix A - Bundled Widgets
Appendix B - Bundled Validators

I hope you will enjoy reading this book and that you will learn a lot from it. And please, don't hesitate to give us your feedback or ideas on how to improve the book. If you find typos, you can also submit a ticket on the trac system.

I also want to thank Dustin who spent the last few nights proofreading the book.

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Comments

Nicolas said on Jun 18, 2008 at 12:46

Bel effort la traduction en franÃ§ais.

Sebastien said on Jun 18, 2008 at 13:10

J'attendais ca depuis longtemps :)

ps : petite erreur dans l'article le titre du 4eme chapitre en franÃ§ais est pas le bon :)

Raphael said on Jun 18, 2008 at 13:21

Great, thanks for all this work!
-RAPHAEL

zero0x said on Jun 18, 2008 at 13:57

cool! thank you!

IsRobot said on Jun 18, 2008 at 14:00

Excellent news! I have been waiting for this. Now I just have to wait for the next few chapters to do nested forms :)

coder said on Jun 18, 2008 at 14:33

Many thanks!!

obalais said on Jun 18, 2008 at 15:02

C'est fou que l'annonce de la sortie du livre "symfony Forms in Action" puisse me rendre aussi heureux !

Thanks to the team !

Taku said on Jun 18, 2008 at 15:30

So, so, so great news ...
Heavy and loud thanks and congratulations to you Fabien (and to all the ones who worked on this).
That community is just awesome.