I have tried to follow the symfony tutorial here: http://www.symfony-project.org/book/1_2/03-Running-Symfony
It's incoherent : It says to download the sandbox but the rest of the tutorial seems for the non-sandbox version. It's not a step by step as it seems and I can't get the same result.
This is really frustrating and if I haven't a project on it, I would already give up !
So is there anything better than the official tut so that I can just get started ?
Thanks a lot.
Symfony is arguably the best PHP framework out there at the moment. It has a huge amount of functionailty and a large and active community.
To help you get started, the creators have provided a wide variety of resources.
The documentation for the latest version, 1.4 is here: http://www.symfony-project.org/doc/1_4/
The Getting Started tutorial might be your first port of call: http://www.symfony-project.org/getting-started/1_4/en/
In older versions of Symfony, there are some excellent step-by-step tutorials on how to build a complete web application:
v1.0: Askeet - http://www.symfony-project.org/askeet/1_0/en/
v1.2: Jobeet - http://www.symfony-project.org/jobeet/1_2/
Symfony does have a steep learning curve, but stick with it. It's worth it!