New in Symfony 2.7: the new Asset component
Contributed by Fabien Potencier in #13234.Prior to Symfony 2.7, web asset management was done in the Templating component. The design of that subsystem suffered from some errors (it required the...
View ArticleA week of symfony #433 (13-19 April 2015)
This week, Symfony continued polishing the upcoming 2.7 version release with some bug fixes and minor tweaks. Meanwhile, we continued publishing articles about the great new features of Symfony 2.7:...
View ArticleIntroducing the Symfony Demo application
Today we're glad to officially introduce the Symfony Demo application. This project is a fully-functional Symfony application developed as a learning resource. The application deprecates the old...
View ArticleNew in Symfony 2.7: Productivity improvements
Symfony 2.7 includes countless code tweaks and improvements. A lot of them are minor changes that will increase your day-to-day productivity. In this article we introduce seven of those small but nice...
View ArticleNew in Symfony 2.7: Choice form type refactorization
Contributed by Bernhard Schussek in #14050.The Choice Form Type is one of the most advanced form types defined by Symfony. It's also one of the most important types, because a lot of other types...
View ArticleNew in Symfony 2.7: Dependency Injection Improvements
The DependencyInjection component allows you to standardize and centralize the way objects are constructed in your PHP applications. This component is used to create the service container, which is the...
View ArticleNew in Symfony 2.7: Form and Validator Updates
The Form and Validator components are one of the largest Symfony components. In Symfony 2.7 we improved them by adding new features and deprecating some existing features.Added checkDNS option to URL...
View ArticleA week of symfony #434 (20-26 April 2015)
This week, Symfony project introduced the Symfony Demo application as the official learning resource for Symfony newcomers. In addition, the Call for Papers for the SymfonyCon Paris 2015 conference was...
View ArticleNew in Symfony 2.7: VarDumper improvements
The VarDumper component was introduced in Symfony 2.6 to provide a better debugging experience. This component includes a dump() function which is a much better alternative to the regular PHP...
View ArticleNew in Symfony 2.7: PHPUnit Bridge
Contributed by Nicolas Grekas in #13398.In computer science, the bridge pattern is meant to "decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently". The bridge uses...
View ArticleA week of symfony #435 (27 April - 3 May 2015)
This week, symfony.com website enabled HTTPS support and the Symfony project started migrating URLs to https wherever is possible (documentation, component repositories, etc.) Meanwhile Symfony 2.7...
View ArticleSymfony Docs Hack Day Needs You on May 23rd
Hi guys!Ah, spring - a time of flowers, sunshine and hanging out with your open source friends online! Yep, I'm talking about this year's first documentation hack day on Saturday May 23rd.It's been a...
View ArticleA month of Symfony Documentation #5 (April 2015)
This month, some existing article were reviewed and improved to be easier to understand and more focused. As the community best practices improve, so do the articles in the documentation! Additionally,...
View ArticleA week of symfony #436 (4-10 May 2015)
This week Symfony added some minor changes to improve developer experience: the dump() function no longer outputs HTML contents when using it in an API or the console (view commit), the...
View ArticleSymfony 2.3.28 released
Symfony 2.3.28 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:bug #14266 [HttpKernel] Check if "symfony/proxy-manager-bridge" package is installed (hason)bug #14501 [ProxyBridge]...
View ArticleSymfony 2.6.7 released
Symfony 2.6.7 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:bug #14266 [HttpKernel] Check if "symfony/proxy-manager-bridge" package is installed (hason)bug #14478 [DebugBundle]...
View ArticleSpeak at a Symfony conference!
The Call for Papers for SymfonyLive London, SymfonyLive Berlin and SymfonyCon Paris are currently all open! If you ever wanted to speak at a Symfony conference, you have now 3 chances to make your...
View ArticleSymfony 2.7.0-BETA2 released
Symfony 2.7.0-BETA2 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:bug #14609 [DebugBundle] Remove inlined dumps on XHR (nicolas-grekas)bug #14605 [PropertyAccess] Fix setting...
View ArticleA week of symfony #437 (11-17 May 2015)
This week Symfony fixed some compatibility issues with PHP7. In addition, the VarDumper component improved its dumping logic: dumps now use the output mechanism of PHP instead of echoing their contents...
View ArticleSymfony Dev IRC Meetings are Back!
When Symfony2 was first being built, we met every week on IRC to discuss development, direction and anything else that kept the project moving and healthy. They were productive, fun, and gave people a...
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