The first international Symfony Conference is currently being held in Paris, featuring some great talks from talented peeps.

Here is for you, lazy guys, the published slides. I will update this post when new one are published. Enjoy!

Day 1

• I18N with Symfony (pdf) by Thomas Rabaix
• Working with the Admin Generator by John Cleveley
• Symfony internals by Geoffrey Bachelet
• Using Doctrine Migrations by Dennis Benkert
• Doctrine 2 – Not the Same Old PHP ORM by Jonathan Wage
• The Symfony Community – How to (get) Help by Stefan Koopmanschap.
• Live discussion with the core team videos (part1 & part2) by Ben Haines

Day 2

• Okapi meets symfony, Symfony meets Okapi. by Lukas & Jordi from Liip
• Optimizing PHP Performances by Xavier de Cock
• Git 101 by Scott Chacon
• Using Zend Framework with Symfony by Matthew Weier O’Phinney
• Using symfony events to create clean class interfaces by Dennis Benkert
• Symfony in the Cloud by Kris Wallsmitsh
• Debugging and Profiling symfony applications by Alvaro Videla
• Build a platform from Open Source at Yahoo! by Dustin Whittle
• Symfony 2 revealed by Fabien Potencier

On Friday 04/09/09, the team of Interluitions organized in a stunning venue the Symfony Day event in Cologne / Germany where a bunch of talented symfony developers delivered highly interesting speeches. I was unfortunately not there but I had the pleasure to monitor the #sfdaycgn hashtag on twitter. As for every cool events, the speakers shared their slides and I thought it was cool to share them here!

I strongly encourage you to read those slides. It’s highly informational!

• Nicolas Perriault on “30 best practices when coding with Symfony (and other frameworks)“
• Xavier Lacot on “Symfony vs. integrating products” (pdf)
• Jonathan Wage on “Symfony 1.3 & Doctrine 1.2“
• Bernhard Schussek on “Best Practices with Lime 2“

Best of all, you can follow these speakers on twitter: @n1k0, @xavierlacot, @jwage and @webmozart.

I’ll definitely try to be there next year.

I just released another plugin for symfony 1.2! The plugin is named uvmcDoctrineTaskExtraPlugin and aims to provide some tasks to help you with Doctrine.

The task I created today is really simple but helps a lot when it comes to manage the files that doctrine created. I’m pretty sure you already had to delete all the models, forms, filters and table that doctrine generated because of a typo in your model’s name or because it suxxed. Well, now, thanks to this plugin, you’ll be able to do that in a second.

You simply have to run:

php symfony doctrine:delete-files-of-model myModelName

and it will automagically deletes every files related to this model.

Today I released my first plugin (yay!) for the symfony framework. It’s called uvmcSolrSearchPlugin and it permits you to integrate your solr search service within symfony, giving you the power of a real search engine in your website.

What is Solr?

From the official solr website:

Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, a web administration interface and many more features.

Solr is massively used by big names like Digg and AOL among others… Yes, using solr is like having a ninja specialized in search, just for your website.

So, what does the plugin do?

The plugin provides an easy way to index the models you want by using the symfony event dispatcher. It leaves your model free of sfContext and handle indexing/deletion even in the admin generator.
If you’re eager to know more, please visit the uvmcSolrSearchPlugin dedicated page.

Greetings

Big thanks to miximum for his symfony & solr integration tutorial (french).

Please don’t hesitate to give me your opinion on this plugin! ;-)

So you’ve learned symfony, you’re experienced with it and wants to find a job related to it! That’s a good news as a lot of companies are seeking symfony experienced developers right now. Here is a way for you to be easily findable, or to find a job easily.

1. Fill in the wiki

   The first step is to write a little thing about yourself in the Symfony Project Wiki. There is a dedicated page to symfony developers for hire.

2. Check symfonians.net

   Symfonians.net is a community which sticks together the coder, the companies, the projects and the jobs related to symfony. Check the jobs page, which is updated really often. Don’t hesitate to register and complete your profil. It can be useful for companies.

3. Twitter

   There’s a lot of things going on there, from the freshest symfony news to futile conversation. Monitor the “symfony” keyword and follow this bunch of tweeps: @fabpot (symfony project leader), @LaurentLC (Sensiolabs’ badass), @skoop (Community manager), @kriswallsmith (former community manager & 1.3-1.4 release manager), @jwage (Doctrine project’s lead developer), @denderello (symfony evangelist), @hhamon (Dev @ sensio), @th0masr (Creator of the famous swToolboxPlugin), @n1k0 (Creator of Symfonians.net), @symfony, @symfonynews. Oh, And don’t forgot to follow me and say hi: @futurecat :-)
   You will find a much more complete list of symfony heads using twitter on wefollow.

4. LinkedIn

   In your race of being as much visible as possible, you could also join the symfony users group on LinkedIn.To be honest, i’m not a very big linked in user, so I don’t really know what’s going on there.

5. RSS & Google Alerts

   Searching  job offers is boring. So use your favorite rss reader and subscribe to RSS feeds of job listing webservices. You can also use google alerts, to create an alert based on the keyword of your choice (”Symfony jobs” might be a good start).

I don’t think this list is really finished, so I will update it when I got new tips. Don’t hesitate to share your resources by posting a comment, I’ll add them here and greet you ;-)

I’ve been using Netbeans 6.8 since yesterday and I must say I’m pretty happy with it! It’s pretty stable.
Symfony support is quite simple as of now but i’m sure it will be better in the next release.
Here is some screenshots of the symfony support in netbeans!

Clear your cache with a right click.

Run a symfony command from Netbeans 6.8

The only downside is that you can’t run custom commands… But i’m sure it will come in a near future :-)
If you want to give it a try, click here to download Netbeans 6.8 Milestone 1.

Update: I forgot to say that I have some problems committing to svn with this version of netbeans. Be advised ;)

Sorry english speaking heads, this post is all about french speaking people ;)

Plus d’un mois après la conférence Symfony Live 2009, phptv commence a sortir des interviews vidéos de quelques-un des intervenants. Au programme pour le moment:

• Une présentation générale par l’équipe Sensio: Fabien Potencier, Gregoire Hubert et d’autres…
• Une interview de Xavier Milliès-Lacroix de chez Arianespace
• Une interview de Thomas Rabaix sur la génération de tests fonctionnels grâce à son fameux plugin swToolboxPlugin

La page dédiée à Symfony live 2009 sera actualisée au fur et à mesure des ajouts! N’hésitez donc pas à y retourner souvent!

As you can see, I changed the look of the blog! I never really liked the previous theme which I find hard to read and not really clear…

I’m really glad to have found the Clean-Home Theme which is a really clean and minimal white background theme with nice typography!

I also installed a plugin called wp-syntax which provide syntax highlighting for a wide range of programming languages!

Thanx to the wordpress community who make a great job with all their extensions!

The changes are not yet finished and I will try to work on this blog regularly! Don’t hesitate to tell me what you would like to see appear here!

If Doctrine throw “Couldn’t get last insert identifier.” exception to your face, you might want to check the schema.yml of your table and change all your:

type: int

to

type: integer

Here is an exemple:
THIS IS BAD:

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MyModel:
  actAs:
    Timestampable:     ~
  columns:
    id:
      type:             int(4)
      primary:          true
      autoincrement:    true

THIS IS GOOD:

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MyModel:
  actAs:
    Timestampable:     ~
  columns:
    id:
      type:             integer(4)
      primary:          true
      autoincrement:    true

This might solve your problem.

Maybe you already had the problem to deal with multiple collations in your database. You want to have utf8 by default but you’re too lazy to fix ALL your schema.yml?

Well, this solution is for you:

Just add this function in your ProjectConfiguration class in “/config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php”

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public function configureDoctrine(Doctrine_Manager $manager)
{
  $manager->setCollate('utf8_unicode_ci');
  $manager->setCharset('utf8');
}

Next time you’ll do a:

php symfony doctrine:build-all-reload

Your tables will be encoded in UTF-8, even in the plugins! :)