Symfony2: First Site

As per my last post I am going to have a look at Symfony2. I intend to recreate a non production version of the new Lime Thinking site.

This means recreating the following features of the Lime Thinking site:

Static content for many pages but with common overall view.
CMS pages for testimonials and projects, needs an admin section, with publishing articles rather than live editing.
Plugin views for testimonials, projects and right hand side view to come from the CMS content.
Search including indexing, retrieval and auto search, which requires generating JSON responses.
Collecting messages and sending them as emails via the database.
Error page on exception for user but with exception logged and a notification emailled.
Custom 404 page with search
Management of CSS and JavaScript files - combining and minifying/packing mutliple files, as well as dealing with versioning for caching purposes.

This is not a very complicated project and doesn't try and test Symfony2 to its limits or try and use everything it can do, but it is a real world project, none of these features are artificial. My intention is to start looking at the Symfony 2 "book" and to get going and to the try to recreate the Lime Thinking site. I am going to post on my way on any interesting features, gotchas and anything else I think may be useful as I go. This series of posts is not intended to be a guide to getting started with Symfony2 since I am only just doing that myself but hopefully it will prove useful to anyone else in a similar position.