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Job Queue in Symfony

The project is growing up like Alice after drinking poison. You expected that it should handle only a few requests and eventually it has to serve many more requests at same moment. Or another scenario – you need to run at once a few tasks and make sure they all are going to be completed [...]

Fabien Potencier – the father and the mother of Symfony framework

This post is dedicated to Fabien Potencier – the father and the mother of Symfony framework. Only biography we’ve found about him is also know as so-called “little history of symfony”: 1994 to 1997 Fabien went to the Ecole National Supérieure des Mines de Nancy. 1997 to 1998 Added master entrepreneur at HEC School of Management [...]

Symfony TV

Hi everybody, We’ve decided to introduce Symfony TV area on our site. So starting from this post we are going to locate there symfony related videos. For now these are videos from Symfony Live 2010 conference. On our opinion it’s important addon to presentation slides which we’ve provided in previous posts. You can see the open [...]

Symfony Live Presentation. Part 2

Here goes another round of presentations taken from Symfony Live 2010 Day 2. I’ve put them in order of importance for me and left some comments. So lets start.. Symfony 2.0 revealed by Fabien Potencier. It’s surely the most important presentation on Symfony conference. Symfony’s father Fabien Potencier presents next major symfony release and uncover important details [...]

Symfony Live presentations

These are presentations from Symfony 2010 Day 1 (I’d name it “Doctrine” day). Doctrine 2 – Not The Same Old Php Orm Very good introduction to next doctrine version (will be supported for only php 5.3 though, rewritten and improved Doctrine Query Language). I recommend to watch these slides before make decision about using [...]

symfony question from Javi

We’ve recently got the following question from newbie and thought someone may have a quick response for this to help the guy Hi, these are my steps first and then my question: I have added this model and this fixture to my app : Birthday: columns: testdate: date Birthday: example: [...]

Using Symfony and Sphinx

In continue to our previous post RSS Reader Symfony 1.4 Tutorial we’ve decided to add to our RSS Reader search feature. One which may fits our purposes is Sphinx. So here are a few simple steps to prepare Sphinx for using 1. Get the latest stable release from here and untar it somewhere on your server 2. [...]

RSS reader symfony 1.4 tutorial

Thanks to symfony hosting ServerGroove we’ve got eventually a chance to implement our old idea about super-duper RSS reader which would work as web service for which we can add multiple features on demand (yes there is still no good enough web RSS reader for us). So lets see how to write RSS reader on [...]

upgrade to symfony 1.4

Was trying to upgrade to symfony 1.4 from symfony 1.2 without luck. After a few attempts to upgrade with usual command “pear upgrade symfony/symfony-1.4.0″ and “pear upgrade symfony” I decided today is wrong day for upgrade it always returned: File http://pear.symfony-project.com:80/Chiara_PEAR_Server_REST/p/packages.xml not valid (received: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found So I thought there must be something with pear [...]

Quick note about deleting records in Symfony/Propel

Just a quick note about deleting records in Symfony/Propel. I’ve tested it both in symfony 1.2.x and symfony 1.0.x and got the same result. So when you try to delete all records from table this way: 1 2 $c = new Criteria(); $rs = TablePeer::doDelete($c); nothing happens but when I tried to add any dummy criteria to it like this: 1 2 3 $c = new [...]