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The project is growing up like Alice after drinking poison. You expected that it should handle only a few requests and eventually it has to serve many more requests at same moment. Or another scenario – you need to run at once a few tasks and make sure they all are going to be completed [...]

Thanks to symfony hosting ServerGroove we’ve got eventually a chance to implement our old idea about super-duper RSS reader which would work as web service for which we can add multiple features on demand (yes there is still no good enough web RSS reader for us).
So lets see how to write RSS reader on [...]

Pretty usefull article:
http://www.phpcult.com/blog/2009/08/talking-to-multiple-databases-with-symfony-1-2/
It’s only for propel though, interesting if similar approach would work for doctrine as well.
Here is the reason why Vidyut Luther had to use multiple databases:
I can’t just extend the existing application for reasons we don’t need to get into, but I do need to interface with the data, since the existing app [...]

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 is interesting though if I’m [...]

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 moving forward is probably the [...]

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 allows to use that?
On the [...]

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: [...]

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 on it.
Ubuntu approach has really [...]

Hey, I’m inspired by this article today:

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 (this is for discussion [...]