Symfony

Infobox Software
name = Symfony


caption = Symfony default project
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developer = [http://www.sensio-labs.com/ Sensio Labs]
released =
latest release version = 1.1.4
latest release date = October 3, 2008
latest preview version =
latest preview date =
operating system = Cross-platform
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language =
genre = Web application framework
license = MIT License
website = [http://www.symfony-project.org/ symfony-project.org]

Symfony is a web application framework written in PHP which follows the model-view-controller (MVC) paradigm. Released under the MIT license, Symfony is free software. The symfony-project.com website launched on October 18, 2005. [ [http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2007/10/18/two-years-of-symfony symfony Web PHP Framework » Blog » Two years of symfony ] ]

Goal

Symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications and to replace repetitive coding tasks. It requires few prerequisites for installation: Unix, Mac OS or Microsoft Windows with a web server and PHP 5 installed. It is compatible with many relational database management systems, and has low performance overheads. [ [http://www.symfony-project.org/about symfony Web PHP Framework » About ] ]

Symfony is aimed at building robust applications in an enterprise context, and aims to give developers full control over the configuration: from the directory structure to the foreign libraries, almost everything can be customized. To match enterprise development guidelines, Symfony is bundled with additional tools to help developers test, debug and document projects.

Sponsors

Symfony is sponsored by Sensio, a French Web Agency. [ [http://www.sitepoint.com/print/symfony-beginners-tutorial Learn symfony: a Beginner's Tutorial ] ] The first name was Sensio Framework [ [http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php/mv/msg/906/3674/#msg_3674 symfony framework forum: General discussion => New symfony tagline brainstorming ] ] , and all classes were prefixed with sf. Later on when it was decided to launch it as open source framework, the brainstorming resulted in the name Symfony, the name which depicts the theme and class name prefixes. [ [http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&&th=906&goto=3674#msg_3674 Comments by Sensio Owner] ]

Real-world usage

Symfony is used by the open-source Q&A service Askeet and [http://trac.symfony-project.org/wiki/ApplicationsDevelopedWithSymfony many more applications] , including the 20 million users of [http://beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com Yahoo Bookmarks] .

See also

*Comparison of web application frameworks
*lime unit testing framework

References

Further reading

*Potencier, Fabien and Zaninotto, François. (2007). "The Definitive Guide to Symfony." Apress. ISBN 1590597869.

External links

* [http://www.symfony-project.org Symfony Project Homepage]
* [http://www.symfony-framework.com Symfony Blog (not official) ]
* [http://symfonians.net/ Symfonians.net - A Community of Projects Using the Symfony Framework]