As with any Open Source project, Symfony is only as good as its community. The best Open Source frameworks are those most beloved by its user base. I am one of those who love Symfony, and in an effort to ensure my framework has the best plugins possible, I challenge all symfony developers to write…
There are a number of tools and tricks that I use to make my job easier. Here are a few of them.
Recently, I ran into an issue when building a Symfony plugin for Slideshow renderings. When I added the support for multiple libraries, in this case Google Slideshow2 and JQuery Cycle, they had drastically different configuration options. JQuery Cycle allows you to use a list of effects, such as blindX and blindY. These effects are great,…
Great news! The first version of the Doctrine 1.0 branch has been released as BETA1. The project is on schedule to release Doctrine 1.0 on September 1st 2008. Today I am happy to announce the release of Doctrine 1.0-BETA1. This marks the true start for the 1st generation Doctrine stable lifecycle. As you may already…
A few weeks ago on the symfony blog, Fabien announced that as of symfony 1.1, Doctrine is officially supported. The documentation will slowly be updated and converted from Propel to Doctrine. Right now, the My First Project tutorial and a new Getting started with Doctrine + symfony 1.1 tutorial have been published on the symfony-project…
I have been waiting on this for a while. Finally, someone has put together an article detailing how to use Doctrine with the Zend Framework. The article was linked from the Doctrine website, but you can also go directly to the original article here.
Check out the new Doctrine Cheat Sheet that was released today on the PHP Doctrine website. I have put together a cheat sheet for all the day to day usage syntaxes of Doctrine. The cheat sheet can be found here. This is the first draft of the document so any comments and feedback would be…
Over at the Doctrine PHP ORM website they have just released a tutorial on how to get started using Doctrine in under 5 minutes!!! “I have put together a short and sweet tutorial on how to get started using Doctrine in under 5 minutes. A few weeks ago, we announced the sandbox package which allows…
In my last post I talked about the possibility of Doctrine being in the core of Drupal 7. After some thought, and a little bit of work, I realized this is not necessary. Doctrine can be used in Drupal now with a custom module I wrote. It comes with schema files and models for the…
The Drupal 7 development has started in the last couple of weeks and the Doctrine bug has been planted in the ear of the Drupal development team. Hopefully the power of Doctrine can be recognized and utilized to take Drupal and Doctrine both to the next level. You can find the discussion between myself and…
