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Unexpectedly we’ve figured out that there are at least 4 big symfony CMS frameworks (honestly until now we’ve heard only about Diem and Sympal). We are going to consider here specifically only CMS frameworks b/c there is also whole bunch of symfony CMS plugins: sfSimpleCMSPlugin, sfDynamicCMSPlugin, sfW3studioCmsPlugin, etc.
Basically symfony CMS framework is not really [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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:

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$c = new Criteria();
$rs = TablePeer::doDelete($c);

nothing happens but when I tried to add any dummy criteria to it like this:

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$c = new [...]

One of the features we were thinking about is sf plugins reviews page.
Unfortunately, what they have on native symfony site is far from ideal, e.g. when you’d try to search for sf 1.0 doctine plugins:
http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/filter?filter[sf_1_0]=on&filter[doctrine]=on&filter[category_id]=&filter[name]=

You get some strange results.
First of all there will be included plugins for sf 1.2 and 1.1 as well.
Also there are [...]

As we announced in our previous post we’ve decided to start using Doctrine instead of Propel.
The first steps in this direction are not about starting the new project though. We would like to see how simple would be to replace Propel with Doctrine in very simple project (like 2-3 simple DB tables).
It’s good that this [...]