Symfony 2 | Fabien Potencier
Symfony 2
Fabien Potencier
Symfony 2 | Fabien Potencier
Who am I?
• Founder of Sensio
– Web Agency (France and USA)
– Since 1998
– 70 people
– Open-Source Specialists
– Big corporate customers
– Consulting, training, development, web design, …
– Main sponsor of symfony and Doctrine
• Creator and lead developer of symfony
Symfony 2 | Fabien Potencier
How many of you have used symfony?
1.0? 1.1? 1.2?
Symfony 2 | Fabien Potencier
symfony 1.0 – January 2007
• Started as a glue between existing Open-Source libraries:
– Mojavi (heavily modified), Propel, Prado i18n, …
• Borrowed concepts from other languages and frameworks:
– Routing, CLI, functional tests, YAML, Rails helpers…
• Added new concepts to the mix
– Web Debug Toolbar, admin generator, configuration cascade, …
Symfony 2 | Fabien Potencier
symfony 1.2 – November 2008
• Decoupled but cohesive components: the symfony platform
– Forms, Routing, Cache, YAML, ORMs, …
• Controller still based on Mojavi
– View, Filter Chain, …
