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We recommend The Definitive Guide to Symfony

Written by the actual authors of Symfony, the book acts as the perfect guide through (what we believe is) the best PHP framework available.

And now for a little bit of plagarism…

Developing a new web application should not mean reinventing
the wheel. That’s why a framework is an essential item in your development
toolbox. It helps you respect coding standards; write bulletproof,
maintainable code; and focus on business rules rather than waste time on
repetitive tasks. This book introduces you to symfony, the leading
framework for PHP developers, showing you how to wield its many features to
develop web applications faster and more efficiently, even if you only know
a bit of PHP.

In The Definitive Guide to symfony, you will learn about the
Model-View-Controller architecture and the crucial role it plays in making
frameworks like symfony possible. The book also covers framework
installation and configuration, and shows you how to build pages, deal with
templates, manage requests and sessions, and communicate with databases and
servers. You will see how symfony can make your life easier by effectively
managing form data, enhancing the user experience with Ajax,
internationalizing applications for a global audience, and using smart
URLs. Authors François Zaninotto and Fabien Potencier put a strong emphasis
on the tools that symfony provides for professional environments, showing
you how to take advantage of unit tests, scaffolding, plug-ins, the command
line, and extensible configuration. And since frameworks often raise
performance-related debate, this book will give you many tips and
techniques for monitoring and improving your application’s performance,
from caching to expert configuration tweaks.

Always keen to offer practical instruction, the authors include a lot of
code examples, expert tips, best practices, and illustrations throughout
this book, with the goal of providing a resource that satisfies the
educational needs of symfony’s rapidly growing user community.

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