The Symfony framework version 2 has been released in July 2011 and became the most modern PHP 5.3+ professional web framework in the PHP ecosystem. Thanks to its very permissive open source licence, growing community and extensive documentation, Symfony has been chosen to be the foundations of many proprietary and open source softwares like Drupal 8.

This talk is an overview of the Symfony framework community, ecosystem and features set. You will discover how to install the framework and use the most interesting features like urls routing, templating with Twig, forms and data validation, database interactions with Doctrine, I18N & L10N, security, HTTP caching...