Here on our dev servers we turn PHP error reporting full on so we get to know of any issues with our code well before it hits production (where errors are turned off). This does however cause problems with older legacy sites that generate reams of warning errors because the developers were slack and – [...]
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Symfony’s most popular plugins
Francios a core member of the Symfony team recently blogged about the 20 most popular plugins of the Symfony project based upon page views. That list is: sfSimpleCMSPlugin sfGuardPlugin sfPropelActAsNestedSetBehaviorPlugin sfMediaLibraryPlugin sfSimpleBlogPlugin sfSimpleForumPlugin sfFeed2Plugin sfgWidgetsPlugin sfThumbnailPlugin sfUJSPlugin sfControlPanelPlugin sfFormValidationPlugin sfMogileFSPlugin sfLightboxPlugin sfCaptchaPlugin sfNiftyPlugin sfPrototypeWindowPlugin sfPropelLoadbalancerPlugin sfSavvyPlugin sfYzClientSideValidationPlugin I find it very interesting that the ‘simple’ [...]
installing the Symfony plugin sfSimpleCMS
I was recently asked if I’d sucessfully got the Symfony plugin sfSimpleCMS working and I’m afraid my answer was no. I had tried briefly when preparing for my talk, but something didn’t work and I carried on with other things. Being reminded of it and having an hour to kill before I head off to [...]
A Pragmatic Look At Symfony
On Thursday I presented to around 30 developers attending the July Bristol Skillswap at Bristol’s Watershed. It was my first ever public speaking gig (if you ignore some sales presentations) and I’m delighted by how well it went. The talk was a ten minute powerpoint introduction and then 45 mins of live coding – this [...]
A Symfony talk at Bristol Skillswap
So it’s public now, I’ll be doing a stand-up talk on Symfony for Bristol Skillswap on the 26th July in the Watershed.
Bargain PHP training
David and Kat over at Pale Purple are offering a PHP training course lasting 5 days starting in July for £500; a special offer price as it’s the first time they’ve ran the course publically. Sounds like a bargain to me.
Symfony book released and codebase tagged 1.0 RC1
Symfony, the PHP5 framework that I’ve firmly adopted at work for any new bespoke projects went to version 1.0 RC1 this week. Symfony is great, not just because it allows developers like me to get on and build complex, easily maintainable apps but also because the documentation is superb. When I picked it up 5 [...]
Symfony job going
Sensio, Fabien Potencier’s company yesterday announced a great sounding job right up there in the ticks all the boxes category: Whether you currently live in the US or in Poland, if you know symfony well enough, we’re interested. The positions are in Paris, France, and we are willing to do the necessary paperwork and look [...]
Symfony and AJAX
I've been playing with the AJAX support in Symfony this weekend and I'm blown away by how easy it is. Today I put together a detailed/summary view switcher for a list of items coming from a database with a (script.aculo.us) fade in/out effect and I didn't need to write one line of JavaScript. Now that's [...]
Remote PHP debugging
After 8 or so years of being a professional web developer I today finally cracked using a debugger with PHP. I’ve been a long suffering PHPEdit user from since it was open source and into having to pay (twice) for a licence. Unfortunately I started getting very irritated by some annoying and performance degrading bugs [...]