Symfony Live Conference, Symfony 2.0, and Dependency Injection

Posted From Fabien Potencier / February 19, 2010 /   Categorised in General  

This has been an amazing week for me, Symfony, and the whole Symfony community. With more than 350 attendees coming from more than 30 countries, the Symfony Live conference was a blast. I want to thank all attendees, speakers, and the Sensio Labs team for coming to the conference and making it a...

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 Propel  Zend  Doctrine  Framework

The state of YAML in PHP

Posted From Fabien Potencier / December 21, 2009 /   Categorised in General  

My first exposure to YAML was in 2001, back in the days when I was mainly working with Perl. Well, I was not using YAML per se at that time, but rather Data::Denter, a Perl library that provides data serialization/deserialization. I used this library mainly for debugging purposes. From its documentation: "It formats nested data...

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 Doctrine  Pear  Pecl  XML  PHPUnit  YAML  Framework  Subversion  Git

2009 Conferences Wrap-up

Posted From Fabien Potencier / December 15, 2009 /   Categorised in General  

This year, I traveled in 7 countries for PHP conferences, giving a total of 12 talks. It has been a very exiting year of conferences for me. I met old and new friends, I learned a bunch of new things (not always related to PHP) and I had of course very interesting conversations about PHP 5.3, symfony, Twig, the Zend Framework, and...

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 Zend  Framework

My first Zend Conference was a blast

Posted From Fabien Potencier / October 24, 2009 /   Categorised in General  

This was my first Zend Conference, and I must say I had a great time there. The organization was top notch, there were plenty of good sessions, and the unconference topics proved to be very interesting. I've also met and talked with a lot of great people. I have particularly enjoyed the talks I had with the Zend team,...

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 Zend  Framework

PHP World Kongress

Posted From PHP.net / October 1, 2009 /   Categorised in News  

On 24th and 25th of November you should not miss the lectures of the top speakers of the PHP Industry on Professional Software Development with PHP at Munich Conference Center. 10 international speakers offer you more than 20 hours of knowledge transfer in the topics "Development", "Tools &...

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 Zend  Soap  Windows  Framework  Facebook

Building a Simple MVC-based Framework in PHP 5

Posted From Devshed / June 7, 2010 /   Categorised in Tutorials  

In this first part of a series, I develop the first module of a model-view-controller (MVC) driven framework, which happens to be a front controller. By combining this component and a basic .htaccess file, its possible to route all HTTP requests to the (still-undefined) dispatcher class. - As you may know, one...

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 MVC  Framework

Growling PHPUnit's test status

Posted From Raphael Stolt / June 3, 2010 /   Categorised in Tutorials  

Two years ago I blogged about a Xinc (R.I.P?) plugin that growls each build status for any via Xinc continuously integrated project. Since I'm using PHPUnit more and more lately, especially in continuous testing sessions (sprints without hitting the continuous integration server), my dependence on a fast and more visual...

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 Zend  XML  PHPUnit  API  Windows  Framework

Installing the PHP redis extension on Mac OS X

Posted From Raphael Stolt / May 15, 2010 /   Categorised in Tutorials  

Recently I took a look at Redis, a popular and advanced key-value store. Peeking at the supported languages section of the project's website you'll notice a lot of client libraries available for PHP. Two out of them caught my particular attention: Rediska due to it's impressive Zend Framework...

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 Zend  Apache  Framework  Git

Using MongoHq in Zend Framework based applications

Posted From Raphael Stolt / March 16, 2010 /   Categorised in Tutorials  

As the name slightly foreshadows MongoHq is a currently bit pricey cloud-based hosting solution for MongoDb databases provided by CommonThread. Since they went live a few weeks ago I signed up for the small plan and started to successfully re-thinker with it in an exploratory Zend Framework based application....

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 Zend  Framework  MongoDB

Utilizing Twitter lists with Zend_Service_Twitter

Posted From Raphael Stolt / February 5, 2010 /   Categorised in Tutorials  

Several months ago Twitter added the list feature to it's public API. While debating some use cases for an event registration application I stumbled upon an interesting feature, which adds participants automatically to a Twitter list upon registration. This way registered and interested users can discover...

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 Zend  XML  API  Framework

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