ApostropheNow is the easiest to use OS content management system with an outstanding ROI, and it’s build on the outstanding Symfony framework.

Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development is the latest book on the symfony PHP web framework and the first not written by the authors of the framework. This allows the authors to adopt a more pragmatic style that favors 3rd party plugins.  This is a good thing because IMHO the most important thing about a framework [...]

I was having some trouble finding documentation on how to i18n generated CRUD’s, so once I figured (most) of it out I thought I’d share it The Example Application Since I have to create a feature in my one of my current work projects to store random bits of content, like privacy policies and such, [...]

Symfony Plugin Review: sfEasyGMapPlugin The sfEasyGmapPlugin seeks to encapsulate much many of the features in the Google Maps API and make them easily available in the Symfony PHP 5 Framework.

Learning Zend Framework and getting a repetitive stress injury doing it Edit: please see Matthew Weier O’Phinney’s (the current project lead for Zend Framework) response in the comments, there are some exciting things comming for ZF My friends & colleagues have used Zend Framework (ZF) for a while, and I do my best to avoid it [...]

Future of Real Estate Marketing, a pretty awesome real estate blog, listed Webdigs.com as one of 10 “kick ass” real estate search sites. This project would have been MUCH more difficult without Symfony providing structure, keeping the teams code somewhat consistent, taking care of so much drudgery. http://www.futureofrealestatemarketing.com/10-kick-ass-real-estate-search-sites/ I got to admit, this was pretty [...]

This last week has been really got me feeling pretty positive about the future of the Symfony PHP framework. Last Thursday Erica Guay (erica D0T guay AT Sapphire.com) called me and is the first recruiter to ask me if I knew the Symfony framework. She’s got a pretty awesome opportunity near Boston, MA to fill [...]

This is a narrative of my experience with the Symfony PHP 5 framework over the last 10 months. The short story is that I’m a fan, but it’s not perfect.