Symfony

November 17th, 2007 Arsen Posted in Patterns - PHP |

symfony

• Based on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.

• Symfony provides a lot of features seamlessly integrated together, such as:
  • simple templating and helpers
  • cache management
  • smart URLs
  • scaffolding
  • multilingualism and I18N support
  • object model and MVC separation
  • Ajax support
  • enterprise ready

• The symfony web framework integrates a server-side AJAX layer together with helpers “a la” script.aculo.us, to provide an easy way to build AJAX applications in PHP 5. A step-by-step tutorial describing the creation of an interactive shopping cart demonstrates the tight integration of prototype, script.aculo.us and the MVC model.
• The Advent Calendar initiative illustrates how to build a real AJAX application in 24 short tutorials, complete with downloadable code. Interactive form submission, Folksonomy, visual effects are some of the AJAX features of the askeet website they are building live. A must see.
• Open source license (MIT License), sponsored by Sensio.