I’ve been working with the PHP framework Symfony for a little over a year now. When I started, I was using version 1.0. About 4 weeks ago I decided to go back and upgrade all of my sites it’s been used on to version 1.2. That was a bit of a nightmare, but I’ve finally finished. And promises are being made that upgrades form version 1.2 should go much smoother… we’ll see.
The truth is that ever since I started using Symfony, my projects have become more robust, easier to work with and overall just a bit better. I’ve truly enjoyed working in this environment, but I find that I tend to ask myself the same questions more than once. I have to hand it to the Symfony team… they’ve done a good job with online documentation, but it just never seems to “cover it all.” My Google toolbar search history shows a huge number of queries that begin with the word symfony. And I find that I’m often trying to dig up the same information I tracked down in the past. I make great use of the help forum. I would guess about 50% of my questions are answered there via searching alone.
So here I am. Out of necessity, I’ve decided to go ahead and start recording my finds and report on them here in hopes of being able to find my same answers more quickly in the future. Since I owned this domain, I figured I’d do it all in a public blog in case anyone else finds use from my findings.
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:56 am
The most frustrating thing about the Symfony documentation is indeed that it is *almost* complete.
The typical API entry for a class method is something like:
method ($defaults = array(), $options = array())
$defaults An array of field default values
$options An array of options
Well gee, thanks. That really clarifies things.