I didn’t miss it, but haven’t told about it. The symfony advent calendar is a set of 24 tutorials, published day-by-day last month to illustrate agile development of a web 2.0 application in PHP with the symfony framework. The result is "Askeet", an open source community based Q&A repository.

In a previous post titled "Top 10 PHP MVC frameworks", I chose Symfony as the best PHP MVC framework. It has a very good documentation. The "Symfony advent calendar" is a proof of the quality of symfony documentation.

Good news: Symfony 0.6 is on its way for download in the next days. But as it breaks backward compatibility on some points, the dev team wants to be sure to put in everything that may require an additional work on your existing projects.

Francois ZANINOTTO said yesterday in symfony weblog about the backward compatibility:
Don't be afraid though, we automated the project upgrade so that the impact on existing applications can be painless. The proof is that the symfony website currently runs smoothly on symfony 0.6, and it took only a few minutes to do it.


If you are PHP developer and never tried Symfony, you should get it a try. You will love it.