With symfony 1.0, one of the nice features was the freeze option, which allowed you to package the symfony libraries inside your project quite easily. This was very useful, for instance when deploying your project on a server where you couldn't install symfony. With symfony 1.1, it is apparently not advised anymore to use the freeze option (even though it is still available)... Join discussion...

So where we are currently working, we have a back catalogue of Symfony 1.0 applications, and are beginning to roll out a few Symfony 1.1 apps to production, as well as a few other things floating around on other versions. As helpful as the compatability plugin is, it can’t magically make any 1.0 app run under 1.1, and we made the decision that... Join discussion...

The MVC paradigm, adopted in symfony from top to bottom, brings highly decoupled components meant to be used independently. In a symfony application, modules are flexible and allow complex manipulations like : forwarding to another module/action and delegate request processing rendering a module/action in isolation (like an email generation module... Join discussion...

There is a lot to learn from Fabien Potencier, the creator of the symfony framework. He often comments people's work on other frameworks, but almost never when someone works on his own framework. So his recent reaction about my DDD experiment is rare enough to be thoroughly analyzed, and distilled. Let's look for the very substance of his latest post... Join discussion...

So work is beginning in the symfonynerds camp on a few 1.1 apps (just in time to have to migrate to 1.2 :p) and I thought it was time to start documenting some of the little tips we have for it. Today I was fine tuning an app for UAT and wanted to configure the ‘years’ being listed in a sfWidgetFormDate Date Select. In the first instance... Join discussion...

I came across this post from a few months ago on the Symfony site: http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2008/06/23/the-symfony-1-1-architecture It’s a really interesting overview of the new decoupling of core classes that Symfony 1.1 provides. This is particularly useful information if you’re designing something that needs to be fast... Join discussion...

For some reason, even though I’ve set default properties in my .subversion/config, it doesn’t always apply to new files, so I end up doing this once in a while: svn propset svn:keywords 'Id Rev URL HeadUrl' \ `find apps/ config/ doc/ lib/ web data/ test/ \ -name '*.php' -or -name '*.yml' -or -name '*.css' -or -name '*.sql'` This tells... Join discussion...

I'm happy to announce the release of both the FireSymfony extension for Firebug and the firesymfonyPlugin for symfony.The extension can be downloaded from the mozilla add ons web site. The symfony plugin is available as a pear package from the framework plugins website.So those that live on the edge can start testing this plugin.I also created... Join discussion...

So Symfony 1.0.18 is out, update your installations. Changelog: r11850: ignore doctrine schema in the propel tasks (closes #4027) r10841: fixed Hours & Minutes not parsed by sfI18N::getTimestampForCulture() r10833: fixed % causes escaping of single quotes in app.yml in some circumstances (closes #2849) r10739: fixed sfBrowser::restart() doesn... Join discussion...

There is a great thread of posts in the Symfony Users Google Group about good practices on how to run multiple Symfony versions on the same machine. The different tips include: Installing different Symfony versions via PEAR Creating different Symbolic links to different Symfony versions (Eg symfony10, symfony11, symfony12…) Including each... Join discussion...