Once Again SENSIO LABS comes with great things for developers [STAND ALONE COMPONENTS FOR PHP]

Symfony Components are stand alone php libraries that can be handy in the development of php. Those are earlier coupled with the symfony and now available separately from the symfony package.

Just have look at those
YAML : PHP library that speaks yaml. YAML framework is the php library which take yaml as string and convert in to php array. All in all it is great product if you want to use it in any of your php project.
it is open source and available at YAML Component of Symfony

Templating : Which is templating engine, that you can use in any of your php project. It is the templating tool which you can use in any kind of templating system. Available at Templating System

And some other components available like EVENT DISPATCHER, DEPENDENCY INJECTION

And Request Handler The flexible micro-kernel for fast frameworks is coming sooner. have a look at
Symfony Components

All in all if you are now interested in symfony's some of the features to implement only. THIS IS THE BEST OF COMPONENTS YOU CAN TRUST. AND YET NOT REQUIRED TO USE THE SYMFONY. It shows the robustness of symfony projects.

Have a look at the new Symfony 1.3 Alpha && its features

Here are some of the advantages of SYMFONY Framework..

* Compatible with as many environments as possible
* Easy to install and configure
* Simple to learn
* Enterprise ready
* Convention rather than configuration, supporting fallback calls
* Simple in most cases, but still flexible enough to adapt to complex cases
* Most common web features included
* Compliant with most of the web "bests pratices" and with web "design patterns"
* Very readable code with easy maintenance
* Open-Source

Check it out the new Alpha Symfony 1.3 with new features... SYMFONY 1.3

• WHAT'S NEW IN SYMFONY 1.3

This alpha version will be the next stable release, is not suitable for production use. You can follow its development use by having a look at the Whats new in Symfony 1.3 even if you are willing to explore the .pdf then please click here.

• Upgrading projects from Symfony 1.2 to Symfony 1.3

To upgrade your 1.2 project to a newer version of Symfony 1.3, you will find all the steps and other information through this.. please   Click here This document describes the changes made in symfony 1.3 and what need to be done to upgrade your symfony 1.2 projects. And If you want more detailed information on what has been changed/added in symfony 1.3, you can read the What's new? tutorial.

• Deprecations and removals in 1.3

Here are some of the deprecations and removals in newer version of symfony 1.3.To find the lists of all settings, classes, methods, functions, and tasks that have been deprecated or removed in symfony 1.3 please Click here

You can find the installation for the symfony 1.3 here Installation

And for the first time user don't bother here you can have basic installation Getting Started

Here are some of the important links through which you can direct download the source for Symfony 1.3

• sf_sandbox_1_3.tgz


• sf_sandbox_1_3.zip