While symfony 1.1 is approaching its final version with the recent release of the Release Candidate 2, the documentation work has sped up a lot. Many people have had fears that documentation will suffer since Francois has left the symfony core team. But as he had done already tremendous work on the 1.1 documentation, there was not much to to make the 1.1 version ready.

But Fabien reshaped the documentation process, so that it is more community oriented by now. The symfony cookbook now contains instructions which extend the scope of snippets on many topics. While the core documentation will remain focused on explaining core web concepts and how symfony uses them, the cookbook will contain step by step instructions and examples that will solve everyday issues.

These cookbooks are also available in various languages, including German, which is mainly translated by myself at the moment. Feel free to improve it. The initial version is always more or less a direct translation of the english version, so a second run could improve language details :-)

Also the official book is preparing to make translations available on the official webpage.

To coordinate efforts on this Fabien just yesterday blogged about the new documentation mailinglist.

Another great documentation enhancement is that the symfony 1.1 API is now searchable using a neat user interface.

Last but not least, I can promise you that the new symfony forms book will answer all of your questions you might have with respect to the new forms system, as I already could read some parts of it.

Update: it is now available

symfony is, and will maintain to be the best documented PHP web framework