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Latest Symfony statistics

Hey statistics lovers! :-) This information is for you. It's some major statistics we've tracked during last few monthes. We thought this information can be interested in some way for symfony community. Of course, it is highly tied with content posted on our site and therefore search requests are specific to ...

About SEO in symfony projects

At some point you should start worring about your symfony project SEO characteristics. We expect that you are familiar with the main SEO rules / ideas therefore only going to provide some specific solutions. So first of all you may be interested in existing symfony plugin simpleSeoPlugin http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/simpleSeoPlugin It allows to add keywords ...

Plugin to manage galleries and photos. Announcement

Hi all, We are about to publish symfony plugin to manage galleries and photos. It's quite strange but there is still no good plugin which would allow users to create own photo galleries for symfony project (assets and medialibrary plugins are good ones but they are more for administration purposes). ...

In continue to htaccess trick

Hi, we've already published bunch of information about tricks with .htaccess in symfony projects (see e.g. Tricks with symfony .htaccess and How to hide symfony project in subfolder). Here is another one helpfull tip which you may use in your project. It works a bit differently from what we've already wrote ...

Time to change skin

Hi everyone, So about skins.. This short note is for those who wants to allow customizing of their project with themes. It's really easier than you can thought. As a basic manual we'd recommend this snippet: http://www.symfony-project.org/snippets/snippet/115 (btw, there is also the other one which explains some other aspects of this ...

Symfony’s super puper cache plugin

You know.. I was never had a chance to speed up symfony project performance. I always knew there are a bunch of cache plugins but also always performance was enough good even without any type of caching. And now I had a chance to investigate this question. I googled for "sfSuperCache" ...

What Google Gears may offer to Symfony ?

Hi all, I'm pretty sure you've already heard of Google Gears (now it's just "Gears" as the other companies along with Google joined to the development process), so just to remind Gears is a browsers plug-in which makes possible your site works offline on users machines. This technology incudes 3 main ...

use YML for storing data in db

Sometimes you may need to store complicated data with non-fixed fields/data types in table. There are different ways for that but if we use symfony where YML is so native and good known - why dont store data in table as YML-formed value. It's pretty straightforward with using of Spyc ...

Flex + Symfony = ?

I must say the older I'm getting the more pessimistic I'm about new technologies. All this buzz around RIA .. I was never tried to understand what is going on there, technologies are changing one other: Laszlo, OpenLaszlo, Flex, AIR, Silverlight. Last thing I've heard was that Flex with AMFPHP ...

Another one constants management plugin

Hi all, We were happy to see that our plugins are usefull and used in following articles about symfony theme: http://www.symfony-framework.com/2008/05/22/themes-management-system-with-symfony-step-by-step-tutorial/ Therefore we decided to add to symfony repository the other plugin which we already announced and described on our site a long time ago (see this: http://www.symfonylab.com/sfadvancedconstplugin/ So from now on this plugin ...