Fabien Potencier

I'm proud to announce that symfony has been chosen as a finalist for the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards.

The one where I talk about Pimple.

Twitter is everywhere nowadays. Odds are eventually you will want to tweet from PHP. No need to use one of the numerous PHP Twitter libraries, as tweeting is as simple as using the PHP built-in file_get_contents() function.

If you need to regularly connect to a lot of different servers like I do, you will probably enjoy this tip!

PHP 5.3 is just around the corner with a lot of great new features. But what for PHP 6?

PHP 5.3 will have a lot of exiting new features, and one of the most important one for me is the introduction of lambda functions and closures support.

During the first five articles of this series on Dependency Injection, we have progressively introduced the main concepts behind this simple and useful design pattern. In this last article, we will see how to use some dumpers to have outstanding performance.

With the last article on Dependency Injection, you learned how to describe services with PHP code by using the sfServiceContainerBuilder class. Today, with the help of service loaders and dumpers, you will learn how to use XML or YAML to describe your services.

In the previous article on Dependency Injection, you learned how to use the sfServiceContainer class to provide a more appealing interface to your service containers. In this article, we will go one step further and learn how to leverage the sfServiceContainerBuilder class to describe services and their configuration in pure PHP code.

Until now in this series on Dependency Injection, we have talked about general concepts. These two introductory articles were important to better understand the implementation we will talk about in this article and in the following ones. It is now time to dive into the Symfony 2 service container implementation.