The Semaphore Software blog has posted a new tutorial for those wanting to get into the Symfony2 framework and find out what it's all about. In this new tutorial they walk you through some of the basics of the framework and shows you how to get a basic first site up and running.

Symfony 2 has seemingly gained the attention of developers in recent times. Owing to the growing hype surrounding this framework, it is something that you ought to know about. A web application framework formed of reusable PHP components has been termed as Symfony. Symfony 2 is an updated version of this framework, and it enables developers to create websites and web applications with ease and convenience. The individual PHP components that set out to form this framework can be selected as per your design and development requirements. Let’s understand why Symfony is gaining popularity and why it should be used by you.

They start with the download and installation of the current version and where to place the resulting files. They briefly cover each of the main directories in the framework setup including a bit of sample code to illustrate. They then get into the bundling system and how it fits it with the overall ecosystem of your application, diving it up into functional "chunks". They show you how to register, configure and extend a bundle with some of your own functionality. Finally, the tutorial shows how to configure the database connection and run Doctrine to generate the table mappings.