On PHPBuilder.com today there's a new tutorial about using the Symfony framework to create and modify a sample application.

Symfony is an open-source PHP web framework that provides architecture, components and tools for developers to build and maintain complex web applications faster. The Symfony framework uses the MVC architecture to make the web applications a lot easier and faster to modify.

They walk through a brief look at the MVC pattern before getting into how Symfony can automatically create a base project (using the command line "symfony" tool), how to configure your Apache server and how to get a database up and working with some sample data. The code for their sample site is available for download.