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Zaninotti’s blog announcement listed the following new features in 1.0:
• Easier installation and larger compatibility. Symfony is now compatible with magic_quotes_gpc set to on and PHP 5.2. Pake and phing are now bundled with the core classes, so symfony has no more external dependency. It is very easy to link a symfony application to the symfony libraries (through the config/config.php file), and PEAR is no more a prerequisite. The symfony command line now works out the box (for PEAR, SVN or .tgz).
• Major performance improvement. Many parts of the code have been refactored, with performance in mind. The result is a performance increase of 50% to 500%, depending on user’s platform.
• New plugin system. Extending symfony has never been easier. A plugin can package classes, modules, helpers, filters, web assets, fixtures, data models, unit tests, and so on. Plugins can be installed with one command. Check the Plugins page for a list of already available plugins.
• New unit test library. Symfony is now bundled with its own unit and functional test framework, called lime, and a bunch of automated tests utilities, such as the sfTestBrowser and sfDomCssSelector classes. Symfony itself has more than 2800 unit and functional tests that guarantee its quality of code.
• Updated default pages for error 404, error 500, insufficient credentials, unavailable page, and deactivated application (thanks justinm for the design!). These pages are both much nicer and much easier to customize than before.
• Easier templating. Components and components slots now work perfectly on every situation, even with cache set to on. Their code was refactored to be fast and effective. The new temlate fragment tools, called slots, are faster than component slots, require no extra file or configuration to add a dynamic zone to a layout. And the icing on the cake: Ajax actions have no layout by default.
• Better and more flexible Model layer. Symfony is now ORM independent: it is still bundled with Propel by default, but can work with others (such as Doctrine) in a snap. Database schemas can now be written in YAML instead of XML. Persistent support and specific database encoding are now supported natively.
• New mixin feature. The sfMixin class introduces mixins in PHP, allowing core classes modification without inheritance, addition of new methods to existing classes, and multiple inheritance.
• More flexible filter system. User filters can now be registered anywhere in the filter chain (even before the security filter).
• New many-to-many relationships are now supported in the admin generator.
• Easier deployment. The freeze task is implemented and fully functional. It transforms a symfony project into a self sufficient program by adding in the symfony libraries and assets.
• Updated creole, Propel, script.aculo.us (1.6.5) and prototype (1.5.0_rc1)
• And more than 200 bug fixes and small enhancements
The very small number of prerequisites make symfony easy to install on any configuration; one just needs Unix or Windows with a web server and PHP 5 installed. It is compatible with almost every database system. In addition, it has a very small overhead, so the benefits of the framework don't come at the cost of an increase of hosting costs.
Using symfony is quite easy for people used to PHP and the design patterns of Internet applications that the learning curve is reduced to less than a day. The clean design and code readability will keep your delays short. Developers can apply agile development principles (such as DRY, KISS or the XP philosophy) and focus on applicative logic without losing time to write endless XML configuration files.
Symfony is aimed at building robust applications in an enterprise context. This means that developers have full control over the configuration: from the directory structure to the foreign libraries, almost everything can be customized. To match the enterprise's development guidelines, symfony is bundled with additional tools helping users to test, debug and document their projects.
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