What Swiss government database, Vogue France and National Geographic Traveler Netherlands have in common? They are all powered by Symfony2! In this article we are going to tell you about the most high-load websites that are using this highly productive PHP framework and share our own experience with this kind of projects.

Developing classic CRUD application (Creating/Reading/Updating/Deleting) working with data bases is a pretty typical task. Since a new version of our favorite framework is to be released soon, I’d like to tell you how to create application on Symfony2.

I have been trying to write this Doctrine 2 ORM tutorial for a long time but just couldn’t get down to it. Finally, I pulled myself together and did it. So here I’m sharing some techniques for working with Doctrine2 ORM which will help to improve the site performance on Symfony2 (precisely any site that uses Doctrine2 ORM). I have created a project and put it on a GitHub as a visual guide so anyone can test my words in action now.