The Definitive Guide to symfony Файлы


course, having already developed web applications in PHP before reading this book is a plus,
for you will see this book as a collection of answers to the questions you regularly ask yourself.
How This Book Is Structured
In this book, you will learn how to use symfony to build web applications. The chapters are
grouped into five parts:
• The Basics covers all the general concepts and prerequisites for starting symfony.
• The Core Architecture describes how the three layers of the Model-View-Controller (MVC)
architecture are implemented in symfony, and how to build pages and applications
according to this separation.
• Special Features explains how to use symfony’s mechanisms for shortening the development
of smart URLs, forms and validation, Ajax interactions, caching, and internationalized
applications.
• Development Tools covers the resources provided by symfony to make day-to-day
development tasks easier: code generators, unit testing framework, command-line
tasks, and plug-ins.
• Becoming a Symfony Expert reveals a few secret corners of the symfony code and shows
you how to tweak the framework’s behavior.