Symfony is arguably the most capable and popular PHP web application framework, enjoying widespread interest by PHP developers around the globe. This book serves as a complete guide to all aspects of the framework, covering installation, configuration, security, and advanced concepts such as scaffolding, routing, caching, and internationalization. It is authored by the Symfony project lead and documentation lead Fabien Potencier and François Zaninotto. Bundled with numerous tools for helping document, debug, and test your applications, and developed in a manner encouraging agile development principles, Symfony is sparking the imagination of thousands of developers around the globe. Accompanied by hundreds of practical code examples, this book will help readers quickly master rapid application development using this popular framework.
Francois Zaninotto is a consultant and project manager for Internet application projects. He graduated from the French business school Ecole des Mines in 1997 with a specialization in computer science. He tried quite a few jobs before settling on the Internet business: social worker in a children's facility, manager of a bike rental shop, web project manager for a tire manufacturer, writer of a travel guide on Germany for the same tire manufacturer, logistician for M decins Sans Fronti res, and IT architect for a consumer credit company. He joined the Sensio web agency in 2003, and since then has managed many Internet and intranet web application projects, dealing with complex usability issues, agile development methodologies, and cutting-edge web techniques. When the symfony project started, he took responsibility for the documentation, and wrote the symfony online book and tutorials.