• Javier Eguiluz
• over 3 years ago
• A week of symfony

Symfony development steadily progresses towards 1.1 version and prepares for major refactoring during following weeks. Plugins list adds up 108 plugins, with 3 more plugins released this week. Symfony's marketplace grows with new job offers and devolpers for hire all around the world.

This week we've also known that symfony 1.1 will feature a new polished and revamped CLI. Although all the old tasks will work as in symfony 1.0, the new tasks will be bundled in namespaces (for example propel:build-all, propel:insert-sql, i18n:find), will use more meaningful names (for example log:clear, generate:module, generate:controller) and will output useful and complete information about their use.

Development mailing list

• The symfony trunk is and will be a bit unstable for the next couple of weeks especially when Fabien will begin the refactoring of the form handling layer.
• Details of the new symfony CLI

Development highlights

• r4710: changed logger constants to class constants (for example SF_LOG_DEBUG is now sfLogger::DEBUG)
• r4720: created pake release 1.1.4 for the upcoming symfony 1.0.6, r4721: switched to pake 1.1.4
• r4730: removed the name of exceptions (as the name is always the class name, it is unneeded)
• r4732, r4733: added a new sfConsoleLogger class and a new sfConsoleColorizer class
• r4742: removed config/constants.php and replaced it with sfCore::initDirectoryLayout()
• Updated mahono and dwhittle branches
• ...and many other changes

Development digest: 43 changesets, 22 defects created, 5 defects closed, 12 enhancements created, 5 enhancements closed, 160 documentation edits.

Book and documentation

• Advances in french translation of Askeet tutorial and french translation of "My First Project"
• Advances in polish, czech, deutsch and french translations of the book

Approximate status of book translations: spanish (99%), polish (63%), italian (31%), chinese (31%), russian (26%), french (21%), brazilian portuguese (15%), deutsch (5%), japanese (-).

Wiki

• New Job Postings:
  • Symfony Developer - full time - Dresden, Germany (more info, contact: jobs [at] seto-gmbh [dot] de)
  • Symfony Developer - full time - Paris, France (more info, contact: drh [at] clever-age.com [dot] com)
  • Symfony Project Manager - full time - Paris, France (more info, contact: drh [at] clever-age.com [dot] com)
• New developers for hire:
  • TechJini Solutions Pvt Ltd: Bangalore (India) based firm run by geeks. Have done most of the projects in symfony, struts, RCP, XUL, VC++, mysql and more
  • Ernitech Consulting Group Pte Ltd: based in Singapore. We have been amazed and delighted with the capabilities of symfony and use it for all projects where the customer does not specify the programming language.

Plugins

• New plugins
  • sfSiteMapPlugin: builds a module listing all the links for a given application, based on the "php reflection" feature.
  • sfMarkdownPlugin: parses and converts text written with Markdown sintax into HTML
  • sfCombineFilterPlugin: it makes your pages load faster by automatically combining and compressing javascript and css files.
  • Initial entry for new (beta) plugins: sfAmazonECSPlugin, sfCommissionJunctionPlugin and sfISBNPlugin.
• Updated plugins
  • sfFormValidationPlugin (provides client-side form validation): new 1.0.5.1 version
  • sfDoctrinePlugin (integrates doctrine ORM into symfony): updated externals for Doctrine to latest revision
  • sfMediaLibraryPlugin (provides an easy-to-use interface to manage web assets like images, PDF documents, Flash objects): several bugs fixed

Some new symfony powered websites

• Matpoż: (poland) supplier of equipment for fire-brigades
• e4s.co.uk: (uk) an online job board for students
• Werner Krause Baugeschäft GmbH: (germany) website of a (re-)construction company in Berlin

They talked about us

• Fichier de configuration, Applications & modules
• Configuration générale d'une application
• Una semana con Symfony #2 (16-22 Julio 2007)
• Uml2symfony, modelando los proyectos Symfony con UML
• A week of symfony #29 (16->22 July 2007) 日本語訳
• Chuletas Symfony
• sfCombineFilterPlugin released: Combine js and css requests into single compressed files
• La nueva interfaz de comandos de Symfony
• Symfony - WewnÄ…trz Warstwy Kontrolera
• Czyszczenie ReqestParameter w Symfony
• symfony1.1ではPHP5.0はサポートされない方向
• Zend_Search_Lucene und Symfony - Teil 2

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