Taken during the play shhh directed by Alexandre Blazy - White masks : it's you, it's me, Flickr After a very long experience working with various PHP Frameworks, Clever Age has finally published today a White Paper about PHP Frameworks for the business world (in french). It has taken us a lot of time to produce this document, but I... Join discussion...

First, I'm going to point out that I do love symfony - I'm mostly happy with it, and I'm a active member of the community. I certainly appreciate the effort put in by Fabien and everyone else who's worked on the symfony project - it's a fantastic achievement. However, there's a couple of things which really wind me up, and I'm concerned things aren't going to change... Join discussion...

As you may know Capistrano is a great tool "originally written to ease the pain of deploying Rails applications". If you are not familiar with it take a look at it's getting started guide. Even if Rails applications development is the primary way that people use Capistrano it can be used for a lot more than that. Let me show you how you can use it for easy-and-with-no-pain deployment of symfony project. Join discussion...

Among the remarks have about symfony 1.1, the most recurring one is the shift of philosophy between the 1.0 and 1.1 syntax. If symfony 1.0 syntax was made to write code fast, I believe it is not the case anymore with symfony 1.1, which is designed primarily for extensibility. The result is that a symfony 1.1 application looks a lot more like a Java program... Join discussion...

I’m wondering if there are available admin themes somewhere. It’s really strange but simple googling and search on symfony forum does not give me anything new. What I knew before is good Joomla-like theme available here (this one is easy to use and integrate): http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php/m/16515/ also there is available plugin based on ExtJs but it seems in early development (and it’s pretty slow at least when I tested it out): http://trac.symfony-project.com/wiki/sfExtjsThemePlugin There is also plugin which provide distinct configurations between create and edit actions: http://trac.symfony-project.com/wiki/sfAdvancedAdminGeneratorPlugin And that’s all? I bet there must be guys who has own themes ( themesholders ) Why I’m started to talk about all this stuff. I found today in my RSSs this link and thought how good it would be if someone integrates such theme for symfony: http://webresourcesdepot.com/wp-content/uploads/file/admin-template/index.html Maybe someday me.. Join discussion...

This is a monster subject, and I spent a long time scratching my head over a few things yesterday, until I came across this site: http://propel.jondh.me.uk/ It’s developed by a Symfony user, and allows you to type in sql statements using nested braces for prioritising. The form will then return a nicely formatted block of Propel code. It’... Join discussion...

Something that just cropped up today… As your site grows, and you add more and more config to the app.yml file, be very careful not to re-declare the same named element. Symfony will not warn you, and there will be no errors - but the second (lower) instance will simple overwrite the first! For example, if you have forgotten that you already... Join discussion...

Just a quicky, as I had to spend 10 mins looking this up hopefully it’ll save someone else time later. I need to retrieve a random user from the users table, but didn’t know how to express a random record… this method will return a single random user, or can take an argument to return more than 1 UserPeer public static function... Join discussion...

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as you know we propose 2 additional services along with writing about symfony. First one is articles voting service and the other one is twitter symfony community. Voting one is a good chance to read usefull articles and dont waste time on the other ones. We aggregate most of articles and then we personally vote only for the best ones. Community on twitter helps you to have some fun from reading what are talking symfony developers about. This community exists more than month and it’s slowly growing each day. Guys are talking about food, movies, new projects, share links. Join discussion...