August Meeting: Symfony, a PHP Framework (part 2)

Main Topic: The Symfony PHP Framework

Symfony is one of the hottest PHP framework projects in the LAMP development community. Demo apps built with Symfony recently made the front page of both Digg.com and Ajaxian, and thousands of developers have downloaded and are using symfony to build their applications. Kevin Moreland is a freelance Linux sysadmin and LAMP developer who has been using Symfony in the development of an enterprise level application. He'll provide an introduction to the framework, and demonstration of its abilities, using the same basic outline from the CakePHP presentation from last month. The presentation will cover the following material:

-Introduction
- The Symfony structure: directories explained
- Models, Views, Controllers
- Starting with symfony
- using the command line tools
- Introduction to Propel
- Prototype an Application
- scaffolding what you need
- Customize the Application
- add a nice layout and enhance the views
- Example(s)
- Extending the Application with helpers and components
- Conclusion / Q & A