http://www.symfonylab.com Everything you wanted to know about Symfony framework but did not know who to ask! Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:12:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [ratings] This time we've decided to review open-source Open Eats Project "an open source recipe/meal planner that can be accessed by anyone across the Internet much like other commercial sites": http://www.openeats.org/ This is not only web-site though but also symfony 1.0.x driven project available for downloading. Does not look like project is actively evolving, ... http://www.symfonylab.com/openeats-review/ [ratings] Today we've randomly selected for the review this symfony-driven site (mentioned in list of applications developed with symfony symfony sites): http://www.postcrossing.com So first of all it has simple but cool idea of postcards sharing. Site works fast, has clean and simple design and navigation w/o any noticeable bugs or disadvantages. Blog area ... http://www.symfonylab.com/postcrossing-symfony-driven-site-review/ One of the features we were thinking about is sf plugins reviews page. Unfortunately, what they have on native symfony site is far from ideal, e.g. when you'd try to search for sf 1.0 doctine plugins: http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/filter?filter[sf_1_0]=on&filter[doctrine]=on&filter[category_id]=&filter[name]= You get some strange results. First of all there will be included plugins for sf 1.2 and ... http://www.symfonylab.com/sf-plugins-reviews/ [ratings] The `sfUploadManagerPlugin` manage uploaded files in a database. Usefull with swfUpload or equivalent to be able to retrieve all file informations (original filename, size, mime type, uploaded date ...). http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfUploadManagerPlugin Sounds like interesting plugin but luck of information make it less worth than it could be. So first of all it refers ... http://www.symfonylab.com/sfuploadmanagerplugin/ Dear SymfonyLab user, We are happy to say that our community is quickly growing. Our site is not young we actually started to write about symfony and symfoniacs almost from the beginning of symfony era and since that time we keep informing symfony world about efficient using of this framework, publish ... http://www.symfonylab.com/our-community-is-growing-whats-next/ As we announced in our previous post we've decided to start using Doctrine instead of Propel. The first steps in this direction are not about starting the new project though. We would like to see how simple would be to replace Propel with Doctrine in very simple project (like 2-3 ... http://www.symfonylab.com/ok-so-doctrine-part-2/ Eventually, when Doctrine is officially selected as default ORM for symfony 1.3 we've decided that it's time to use Doctrine. We knew all Doctrine's advantages before but we used Propel from the very beginning of symfony and it's actually sad to understand that Propel lost this war. The biggest reason why ... http://www.symfonylab.com/ok-so-doctrine/ Hi, If you finally decided to use version control software for your current symfony project this small article is for you. We use git and want to share some information about it with you. So first of all you'll have to install it: 1. wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.4.1.tar.gz (of course number of version most probably ... http://www.symfonylab.com/using-git-for-symfony-projects/ Pretty usefull article: http://www.phpcult.com/blog/2009/08/talking-to-multiple-databases-with-symfony-1-2/ It's only for propel though, interesting if similar approach would work for doctrine as well. Here is the reason why Vidyut Luther had to use multiple databases: I can’t just extend the existing application for reasons we don’t need to get into, but I do need to interface with the ... http://www.symfonylab.com/a-note-on-approach-to-communicate-with-multiple-databases-in-symfony/ So as we've promised here goes more slides for online viewing: 1. Symfony 2 by Fabien Potencier It's long one but contains great information "where will be moving symfony in next 1-2 years". Frankly, I'm a bit confused b/c I feel that symfony 2 wont be compatible with 1.x branch. I did ... http://www.symfonylab.com/symfony-conference-most-interesting-slides-ideas/