Added notes in the components doc to point to the main Symfony articles

components/browser_kit.rst

@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/browser-kit>`_ rep
 Basic Usage
 -----------
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the BrowserKit features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. Read the :ref:`Symfony Functional Tests <functional-tests>`
+    article to learn about how to use it in Symfony applications.
+
 Creating a Client
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

components/console.rst

@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/console>`_ reposit
 Creating a Console Application
 ------------------------------
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the Console features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. Read the :doc:`/console` article to
+    learn about how to use it in Symfony applications.
+
 First, you need to create a PHP script to define the console application::
 
     #!/usr/bin/env php

components/css_selector.rst

@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/css-selector>`_ re
 Usage
 -----
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the CssSelector features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. Read the :ref:`Symfony Functional Tests <functional-tests>`
+    article to learn about how to use it when creating Symfony tests.
+
 Why to Use CSS selectors?
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

components/dependency_injection.rst

@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/dependency-injecti
 Basic Usage
 -----------
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the DependencyInjection features as an
+    independent component in any PHP application. Read the :doc:`/service_container`
+    article to learn about how to use it in Symfony applications.
+
 You might have a simple class like the following ``Mailer`` that
 you want to make available as a service::
 

components/dom_crawler.rst

@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/dom-crawler>`_ rep
 Usage
 -----
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the DomCrawler features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. Read the :ref:`Symfony Functional Tests <functional-tests>`
+    article to learn about how to use it when creating Symfony tests.
+
 The :class:`Symfony\\Component\\DomCrawler\\Crawler` class provides methods
 to query and manipulate HTML and XML documents.
 

components/event_dispatcher.rst

@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/event-dispatcher>`
 Usage
 -----
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the EventDispatcher features as an
+    independent component in any PHP application. Read the :doc:`/event_dispatcher`
+    article to learn about how to use it in Symfony applications.
+
 Events
 ~~~~~~
 

components/form.rst

@@ -27,10 +27,11 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/form>`_ repository
 Configuration
 -------------
 
-.. tip::
+.. seealso::
 
-    If you are working with the full-stack Symfony Framework, the Form component
-    is already configured for you. In this case, skip to :ref:`component-form-intro-create-simple-form`.
+    This article explains how to use the Form features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. Read the :doc:`/forms` article to learn
+    about how to use it in Symfony applications.
 
 In Symfony, forms are represented by objects and these objects are built
 by using a *form factory*. Building a form factory is simple::

components/http_foundation.rst

@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/http-foundation>`_
 
 .. include:: /components/require_autoload.rst.inc
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the HttpFoundation features as an
+    independent component in any PHP application. In Symfony applications
+    everything is already configured and ready to use. Read the :doc:`/controller`
+    article to learn about how to use these features when creating controllers.
+
 .. _component-http-foundation-request:
 
 Request

components/http_kernel.rst

@@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/http-kernel>`_ rep
 The Workflow of a Request
 -------------------------
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the HttpKernel features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. In Symfony applications everything is
+    already configured and ready to use. Read the :doc:`/controller` and
+    :doc:`/event_dispatcher` articles to learn about how to use it to create
+    controllers and define events in Symfony applications.
+
+
 Every HTTP web interaction begins with a request and ends with a response.
 Your job as a developer is to create PHP code that reads the request information
 (e.g. the URL) and creates and returns a response (e.g. an HTML page or JSON string).

components/intl.rst

@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ The Intl Component
     The replacement layer is limited to the locale "en". If you want to use
     other locales, you should `install the intl extension`_ instead.
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the Intl features as an independent component
+    in any PHP application. Read the :doc:`/translation` article to learn about
+    how to internationalize and manage the user locale in Symfony applications.
+
 Installation
 ------------
 

components/phpunit_bridge.rst

@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/phpunit-bridge>`_
 Usage
 -----
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the PhpUnitBridge features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. Read the :doc:`/testing` article to learn
+    about how to use it in Symfony applications.
+
 Once the component is installed, a ``simple-phpunit`` script is created in the
 ``vendor/`` directory to run tests. This script wraps the original PHPUnit binary
 to provide more features:

components/routing.rst

@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/routing>`_ reposit
 Usage
 -----
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the Routing features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. Read the :doc:`/routing` article to learn
+    about how to use it in Symfony applications.
+
 In order to set up a basic routing system you need three parts:
 
 * A :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Routing\\RouteCollection`, which contains the route definitions (instances of the class :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Routing\\Route`)

components/security.rst

@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ used separately:
 ``symfony/security-acl``
     It provides a fine grained permissions mechanism based on Access Control Lists.
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the Security features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. Read the :doc:`/security` article to learn
+    about how to use it in Symfony applications.
+
 Learn More
 ----------
 

components/serializer.rst

@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ must also be installed.
 Usage
 -----
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the Serializer features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. Read the :doc:`/serializer` article to
+    learn about how to use it in Symfony applications.
+
 Using the Serializer component is really simple. You just need to set up
 the :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Serializer\\Serializer` specifying
 which encoders and normalizer are going to be available::

components/templating.rst

@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/templating>`_ repo
 Usage
 -----
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the Templating features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. Read the :doc:`/templating` article to
+    learn about how to work with templates in Symfony applications.
+
 The :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Templating\\PhpEngine` class is the entry point
 of the component. It needs a
 template name parser (:class:`Symfony\\Component\\Templating\\TemplateNameParserInterface`)

components/translation.rst

@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/translation>`_ rep
 
 .. include:: /components/require_autoload.rst.inc
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the Translation features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. Read the :doc:`/translation` article to
+    learn about how to internationalize and manage the user locale in Symfony
+    applications.
+
 Constructing the Translator
 ---------------------------
 

components/validator.rst

@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/validator>`_ repos
 Usage
 -----
 
+.. seealso::
+
+    This article explains how to use the Validator features as an independent
+    component in any PHP application. Read the :doc:`/validation` article to
+    learn about how to validate data and entities in Symfony applications.
+
 The Validator component behavior is based on two concepts:
 
 * Constraints, which define the rules to be validated;

testing.rst

@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ Running tests for a given file or directory is also very easy:
 .. index::
    single: Tests; Functional tests
 
+.. _functional-tests:
+
 Functional Tests
 ----------------