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Symfony defines several bridges to abstract third-party libraries such as Doctrine,
Monolog, Swiftmailer and Twig. In Symfony 2.7 we added a new bridge for PHPUnit.
April 28, 2015
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In Symfony 2.7 we made the VarDumper component dump() function easier to use and we also improved the dumping of complex variables such as PHP reflection classes.
April 27, 2015
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The Form and Validator components are one of the largest Symfony components. In Symfony 2.7 we improved them by adding new features and deprecating some existing features.
April 24, 2015
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The DependencyInjection component allows you to standardize and centralize the way objects are constructed in your PHP applications. This component is used to create the service container, which is the biggest contributor to the extensibility of the Symfony framework. Symfony 2.7 improves this component with new features but it also removes some of its current features.
April 23, 2015
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The Choice Form Type is one of the most advanced form types defined by Symfony. In Symfony 2.7 this form type has been completely refactored to support dynamic generation for labels, values, indexes and attributes.
April 22, 2015
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Symfony 2.7 includes countless code tweaks and improvements. A lot of them are minor changes that will increase your day-to-day productivity. In this article we introduce seven of those small but nice features.
April 21, 2015
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Symfony 2.7 introduces a new component called Asset which manages URL generation and versioning of web assets such as CSS stylesheets, JavaScript files and image files.
April 17, 2015
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In addition to high impact changes and big features, the new Symfony versions always
add tweaks and minor improvements across its codebase. In this article you'll learn
about three small security-related changes that will improve your day-to-day
productivity as developer.
April 16, 2015
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In Symfony project we believe that all the information relevant to developers
should be one click away. That's why in Symfony 2.7 we've added a new panel with
Twig information in the web debug toolbar.
April 14, 2015
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In Symfony 2.7, the Symfony Serializer component has been greatly improved
with lots of new features. This article introduces the most important ones.
April 13, 2015
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