Recently, Aura is creating some buzz that components of PHP frameworks should not have any dependencies. To quote Paul M. Jones’ recent article on Aura: The distinction is that all Aura packages (with the exception of the Framework package) are completely independent, and have no cross-pa[...]

Every once in a while, I get into an argument about extending PHP’s Traversable interface instead of the Iterator interface in custom interfaces. The confusion seems to result from the official documentation of Traversable. Let me clarify why you should give Traversable much more love tha[...]

You are joining the Symfony Live conference in San Francisco this year? Good! I will be giving a talk about the Symfony2 Form component and you have the unique opportunity to vote on what I will be presenting. Today I have put up a survey with 23 topics that may find their way into my [...] Rel[...]

Symfony2 features a brand-new Form component that, to my knowledge, supersedes most existing PHP form libraries in functionality and extensibility (not counting the still lacking, native JavaScript support). It has been in development for  two years, even though I was already thinking about it [...]

Stumbling over a post in the symfony-users list I wrote down some information on how we manage mobile sites in our ullright platform: There’s an old blog post about creating an symfony iPhone view: http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2008/06/09/how-to-create-an-optimized-version-of-your-w[...]

Although most modern literature agrees that testing is essential for successful software projects, testing has to be done right. Several bad habits can be identified that not only negatively affect testing performance, but also reduce your development speed. One of the first mistakes people mak[...]

Unit testing can be a blessing and curse at the same time. Once you start doing it on a regular basis, it can become an addiction. You test everything, you feel the satisfaction of 110% test coverage giving you confidence in your code. But after a while, testing suddenly seems to slow you down.[...]

Yesterday I returned back to Vienna from Symfony Day Cologne 2009. The conference was amazingly well organized and many people deserve credits for making it such a great experience. Thank you Andreas and Dennis for putting uncounted hours into planning the event, guiding us around the city, spe[...]

Today, I will take the plane to Cologne to attend the first german Symfony Day. The one-day conference is going to take place on friday on the 28th floor of the Köln Triangle, the second highest building in Cologne. Located directly at the bank of the Rhine, the tower offers a magnificient view[...]

The “default” context does not exist. Is there any symfony developer out there who never stumbled upon this dreadful error message? I doubt it. Recently, a lot of posts have been made on the user mailing list asking for explanations and fixes. A quick search on Google for the exact [...]