Rapid deployment of web applications never became so much easier with the development of the symphony framework aimed at reducing repetitive codes. Compatible with propel and doctrine symphony has helped programmers immensely to create and maintain applications. One setback however was the availability of easy to master tools of Symfony making the job of understanding and deploying Symfony based applications a bit tedious and time consuming.

However and endeavor towards this by Packt Publishing House which has brought out the book Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development authored by Tim Bowler and Wojciech Bancer. Both of them renowned scholars in their field has come together to author this book which is easy for the novice to master and a guide for the hardcore programmer. The style of writing is pretty straight forward and simple which should please anybody who would want to be led in to the world of Symfony.

The book divided into 10 chapters covers enough ground for one to have a  firm grip on the inner working of Symfony. All the chapters in the book has been augmented with the help of sufficient code and flowcharts to give the readers a sense of tasks they are dealing with.  Overall it’s a great buy well charted well spaced book which should be easy for the novice as well as a guide for the geek. The most important beauty of this book is it can be used for amateur and also for professionals. Please check the sample chapter of Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development for a better understanding of how the book is paced. You can purchase Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development from packthub.