setupsymfony.sh

#!/bin/bash

SYMFREPO="git://symfony-git.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/symfony-git/symfony-git"
DBUSER="root"
DBPASS=""
VENDOR_DIR="lib/vendor/symfony"

if [ -z "$DBPASS" ]; then
 echo edit setupsymfony.sh to add your mysql password on line 4: DBPASS=\"password\"
 exit
fi

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
 echo usage: $0 project name
 exit
fi

mkdir $1
cd $1

git init
git clone $SYMFREPO $VENDOR_DIR
git submodule add $SYMFREPO $VENDOR_DIR/

git submodule foreach 'git submodule init && git submodule update'

git commit -m 'Initial commit; initialized symfony-git (1.4)'

$VENDOR_DIR/data/bin/symfony generate:project $1
echo "config/databases.yml" > .gitignore
echo "cache/*" >> .gitignore
echo "log/*" >> .gitignore

./symfony project:permissions
git add .
git commit -m 'Initialized symfony project'

./symfony generate:app frontend
git add .
git commit -m 'Initialized frontend application'

mysqladmin -u$DBUSER -p$DBPASS create $1
./symfony configure:database "mysql:dbname=$1;hostname=localhost" $DBUSER $DBPASS

Nice script for quick initialisation of project. Thank you!
I made small improvement and changed symfony repository url, seems that old one is broken :/

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Receiving objects: 100% (5854/5854), 3.06 MiB | 119 KiB/s, done.
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warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.