Sometimes you may need to store complicated data with non-fixed fields/data types in table. There are different ways for that but if we use symfony where YML is so native and good known - why dont store data in table as YML-formed value. Join discussion...

Attention Symfony PHP addicts: For those who might want to catch up on some Symfony programming on the train, bus, plane or even for reading it on your mobile phone whilst you are on the toilet - having an offline version of the Symfony book would be useful. So we have done that for you. Feed your symfony addiction: Get the offline version of the Symfony Book for Symfony 1... Join discussion...

I must say the older I’m getting the more pessimistic I’m about new technologies. All this buzz around RIA .. I was never tried to understand what is going on there, technologies are changing one other: Laszlo, OpenLaszlo, Flex, AIR, Silverlight. Join discussion...

One of the recurring concern when developing an internationalized application, is to not let any element untranslated. This is natively complicated, even with the brand new symfony 1.1. You often end up with untranslated URLs or meta tags. But using the Framework in conjonction with the Yahoo!'s plugin ysfDimensionsPlugin will fill all the blanks you could have experienced once... Join discussion...

When it comes to ORMs, it's all a matter of preference. Is it, really? This post compares side-by-side the code required to perform some simple operations with three OO database requesting API. The purpose is to demonstrate that productivity, and not only style, can vary a lot depending on the ORM you choose. There are not many robust Object Relational Mapping layers in PHP5... Join discussion...

I was just catching up on my feeds this morning, and came across an update on another great piece of workby Francois. The easiest way to explain what I like about this plugin is just to look at the following example… it is in another class for ease of readability and simplicity in writing compared to the ’standard’ symfony method... Join discussion...

After my post ( which was a response to a post in the symfony forums : http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php/t/9622/ ), triparts came up with a different and probably - easier solution : securing the modules with empty permission sets. Like this : security.yml all: is_secure: on index: credentials: [] I have not tested this solution, so if anyone else gets back with some [... Join discussion...

Note : This post assumes you have atleast basic knowledge about Symfony’s structure and how all it works. If you don’t and you’re planning on writing an application using symfony, go ahead and read the online documentation book : The Definitive Guide to symfony . So here we go. I am currently writing an app, who’s [...] Join discussion...

Development goes on at a decent pace on the sfPropelFinderPlugin . Recent additions make it even more suitable for your needs. It should cover about 80% of the common use cases, so you'd better try it fast. Compatible With I18n Projects using symfony's internationalization (i18n) layer to store various versions of a record in the database based... Join discussion...

After more than a year in development, the longly awaited 1.1 version is finally out. Many blogs wrote with positivity about this release, describing all its new features. I’have been using S ymfony 1.1 from RC1 and I noticed that all developers work is behind the scene, as Fabien say, Symfony 1.1 is a very special framework release. Furthermore, Symfony 1... Join discussion...