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A quick tip on iterators.

You should learn how to take advantages of PHP Iterators and Streams.

How do you find files and directories with PHP? Do you use Iterators? If not, you probably should... or keep reading for a better and simpler way.

The one where I talk about the new and shiny Symfony 2 CSS Selector Component, a tool that converts CSS selectors to XPath expressions.

This has been an amazing week for me, Symfony, and the whole Symfony community. With more than 350 attendees coming from more than 30 countries, the Symfony Live conference was a blast.

My first exposure to YAML was in 2001, back in the days when I was mainly working with Perl. When I started to use PHP at the end of 2004, one of the first thing that bothered me immediately was the poor support for YAML.

This year, I traveled in 7 countries for PHP conferences, giving a total of 12 talks. It has been a very exiting year of conferences for me.

Some weeks ago during the Zend Conference, I quietly released Pirum, a simple PEAR channel server manager. As some people talk about it on "social networks", I thought I should write an official announcement on my blog to explain where I come from.

How I compiled PHP 5.3 on my Snow Leopard laptop.

This was my first Zend Conference, and I must say I had a great time there. The organization was top notch, there were plenty of good sessions, and the unconference topics proved to be very interesting.

My post about template engines in PHP had now more than 70 comments, and counting. This follow-up tries to answer the most asked questions.

So, you think PHP is a templating engine? So did I... for a very long time. But recently, I changed my mind. Here is why.

As you might have noticed, I'm the new project manager of Swift Mailer, a powerful mailing library for PHP.

During my holidays, I took the chance to step back a little and think about my day-to-day work. In this post, I try to explain why hacking is really an art.

During fall, I will speak at several conferences: the Japan PHP conference in Japan, the Zend PHP conference in the USA, the Forum PHP in France, and the PHP International Conference in Germany.

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.

In the first installment of this series on Dependency Injection, I have tried to give concrete web examples of Dependency Injection in action. Today, I will talk about Dependency Injection Containers.

This article is the first of a series on Dependency Injection in general and the implementation of a Dependency Injection Container in PHP.

Websites like Twitter makes URL shortener services a must. My main concern with URL shortening is that you loose all the meaning embedded in the URLs. I wanted a shortener URL service that gives short URLs, but also keep some sort of meaningful information about the original URL.

Yesterday, I fixed a bug that looks very weird at first. In this post, I will describe the problem, the solution I found, and explain some PHP behaviors in the process.

As probably many of you, I am tired to read blog posts about non-sense micro-optimizations like replacing print by echo, ++$i by $i++, or double quotes by single quotes. Why? Because 99.999999% of the time, you don't care. Why? Because 99.99% of the time, you'd better install a PHP accelerator like APC, or add these missing indexes on some database columns, or try to avoid those 1000 database requests per page.

Last year, I deployed a new tool to manage symfony plugins. The first goal of this tool was to simplify the process of contributing new plugins. It proved to be very successful, and I had a good feeling that the plugin creation rate was rising since then. And yesterday, I wanted to have hard numbers to back me up.

Some days ago, I started to use twitter. I am not sure how it will works for me, but I will try to do some experiments with it.

Just after the immediate availability of symfony 1.2, I was very proud to announce the 2008 symfony advent calendar: Jobeet.

Learn how to easily test your Propel classes

Learn how to customize the template used by your actions.

In this post, I try to explain the philosophy behind the new symfony form framework and how it sticks to the MVC pattern.

Learn how to customize the Propel generated SQL by executing some SQL statements after the propel-insert-sql task (propel:insert-sql in symfony 1.1).

Learn how to stay up to date with the symfony 1.0 branch.

Learn how to automatically customize the symfony generated classes author name.

Learn how to rename a symfony module step by step.

Learn how to rename a symfony application step by step.

Learn how to clear the symfony cache without using the command line. This tip is quite useful if you only have FTP access to your production server.

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