Introduction to Symfony 2
by Elmer Thomas from SendGrid

• Why Symfony 2? vs. RoR vs. Django vs. Zend vs. ...
• Overview of how Symfony implements
• MVC
• routing
• testing
• security
• Overview of extending Symfony - A Quickstart Guide/Example

Join us for appetizers following the meetup (around 8:45/9p at the Matador Cantina below our host). Round of appetizers are sponsored by SendGrid (http://sendgrid.com/?ocphp).

About Symfony

Symfony is a web application framework for PHP projects.

It aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.

http://www.symfony-project.org (http://www.symfony-project.org/)

About SendGrid

SendGrid (http://sendgrid.com/?ocphp) replaces your outbound email infrastructure, so you don't have to build, scale, and maintain email servers on your own. Our users enjoy improved deliverability, insight from analytics, on-demand scalability…and APIs.

http://sendgrid.com/ (http://sendgrid.com/?ocphp)