When I first started working with symfony admin generator, I searched for some nice themes that I could use in my project, and for my surprise, I didn’t find anything. Searching a bit more I came across a blog post on SymfonyLab (http://www.symfonylab.com/backend-generator-theme/) asking about themes. In the post the author pointed an joomla like theme (http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php/m/16515), created by a user called Draven, that I really liked, but it’s outdated. I’m not really a joomla fan, but I must admin I like their backend design, so I decided to do a new implementation of this theme. It’s based on Draven’s implementation, in fact the css is almost the same, with some changes here there, and some small layout changes as well (specially in the edit page). Just one note that’s worth saying, it’s not really a THEME, but just a css, some layout templates and a collection of images, that changes the look of generated admin module. Here are some screenshots:

Also you can see it in action here (use anything as username/password).

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Have you ever seen those forms where you select a country, then it populates a list of states, then you pick a state and it populate a list of cities? I’ve seem many of these and I really like them. In one of my past projects I was asked to add a similar form to the system, using symfony, and I’ll show how I accomplished this, making use of the excellent new symfony 1.1 form system. For those who want to see what it looks like before keep on reading, I put very simple sample online in this link.

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