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Symfony Conference most interesting slides / ideas

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 ...

Symfony Conference Paris 2009

Definitely interesting to read through conference slides (downside is only 3-4 presentation are in English and the other are French): First Day Slides Second Day Slides The most impressive to us is Yahoo sliders. It's food for thinking. Here is just a few things we've discovered after presentation reading: R3 (Easy Localization and Translation) ysfAPIClientPlugin ysfBuildPlugin ysfYUIPlugin (what ...

Symfony / PHP Compatiblity… Biggest problem.

While reading this article http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/2009/01/24/set-of-patches-to-allow-php-gtk2-to-compile-with-php6/ was surprised that php6 is so close. I must say I'm not a fan of php upgrades. I mean for me php always had enough functions / syntax and I would not ever change them (since php4) except fixing bugs. Of course this is wrong thinking b/c ...

Symfony GTK

Just a thought if there is a way to use symfony and GTK together? Am looking through this book quickly: Pro PHP GTK and looks pretty good. There is thread in forum regarding GTK: http://forum.symfony-project.org/index.php/m/37926/?srch=gtk#msg_37926 which generally says that there is no way to use GTK and symfony but probably can be written "view" plugin which ...

Using PHP extension for symfony pages

Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone ever needed to use .php extension for symfony pages. e.g. you may want to make your urls look like http://domain.com/home.php or http://domain.com/mypage.php. If so here is the solution: First of all dont forget to enabled suffix option in your apps/frontend/config/settings.yml: .settings: suffix: ...

Running 2 instances of symfony on one machine

Are you still using both symfony 1.0.x and symfony 1.2.x We've figured out another one solution which you can use to keep both branches on same Windows machine. So you can keep symfony 1.0.x branch configured on Windows and you can run portable Ubuntu: Portable Ubuntu Runs Ubuntu Inside Windows and install symfony 1.2.x ...

Symfony “How To” lessons announcement

We are happy to announce the upcoming publishing of SymfonyLab lessons. In some sense this would work similar to Askeet and Jobeet projects. We are planning to publish step-by-step articles which would describe how to create some kind of project. At the moment we consider the lessons for creating bidding / ...

Add PHP code to Your CSS in Symfony

Hey, I'm inspired by this article today:

Distributing symfony project

Hi, It's more like question than post though. So we considere the possible options to distribute the project easily. Never had about any kind of installer for symfony project or any kind of installation process. Moreover as it turned out freezing is not the case starting 1.1.x branch as it mentioned ...

Javascript frameworks quick note

I guess finally I became jQuery fan. It did not happen quickly though. As symfony from the beginning uses Prototype I was staying for the long time prototype-oriented :-) But I believe in last time improvements and extra plugins developed for jQuery went through critical edge and now it's beyond comparison ...