Although this framework contains many powerful features, most developers do not exploit Symfony to its full potential.

This book makes it easy to get started and produce a powerful and professional-looking web site utilizing the many features of Symfony. Taking you through a real-life application, it covers all major Symfony framework features without pushing you into too much theoretical detail, as well as throwing some light on the best practices for rapid application development.

This book is written for PHP developers who want to get started with Symfony 1.3 or for those that are currently using Symfony 1.0/1.1/1.2.

By reading the book and following the example web application you will learn about:

• Using the form framework
• Using the new send email features
• Creating Symfony command line tasks
• Using the admin generator to create an entire backend
• Securing the backend of your application
• Internationalization
• Installing, using and creating your own plugins
• Learning about caching by using both Symfony’s caching framework and memcached
• Working with the Propel ORM
• Using JQuery and form widgets
• Bridging other library’s like Ezcomponents and the Zend Framework
• Deploying you application

Just to show you that the book is worth buying please download and view Chapter 4: User Interaction and Email Automation

To purchase your copy please vist Packt‘s site.

Review:

Federico Cargnelutti

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Example:
To see if an author has a comment

$author = AuthorPeer::retrieveByPK($id);
$authorComments = CommentPeer::getAuthorComments($author->getAuthorId());

//In the model
public static function getAuthorComments($id)
{

    $c = new Criteria();
    $c->add(self::AUTHOR_ID, $id);

    return self::doSelect($c);

}

$author = AuthorPeer::getAuthorComments($id);
$author = array_pop($author);

...
...

//In the model
public static function getAuthorComments($id)
{
$c = new Criteria();
$c->add(self::AUTHOR_ID, $id);

$c->addJoin(self::AUTHOR_ID, CommentPeer::AUTHOR_ID, Criteria::LEFT_JOIN);
$c->setLimit(1);
return self::doSelect($c);
}