Fabien Potencier

Week 1

Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

First week of confinement.

Symfony 4: Unpack the Packs

Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Introducing a way to unpack the packs.

Symfony 4: Performance out of the Box

Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

What about Symfony 4 performance? We worked on specific performance improvements for Symfony 4, but several non-performance related core changes help with performance as well.

Symfony Flex Private Repositories

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Private recipes repositories support added to the Symfony Flex server.

Symfony 4: An Update on Flex

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A quick update on recent changes in Symfony Flex.

Symfony 4: Directory Structure Updates

Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

After a long discussion in the community, the directory structure was slightly changed.

Symfony 4: A quick Demo

Tue, 02 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Eager to test Symfony 4. At least, the current preview version? Let’s do it now.

Symfony 4: Contributing Recipes

Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The Symfony Recipes are opinionated, but anyone can contribute.

Symfony 4: Automate your Workflow

Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Time to introduce Symfony Flex, Symfony 4 secret weapon. Learn more about what it can do for you.

Symfony 4: Directory Structure

Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Symfony 4 has a slightly reworked directory structure. Incremental adjustments to support new features and best practices.

Symfony 4: Best Practices

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Any major version of a project is an opportunity to revisit its best practices. Modernizing them. Adapting them to the project’s new features. Symfony 4 is no exception.

Symfony 4: Monolith vs Micro

Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Monolith projects versus micro-applications; Symfony 4 supports both.

Symfony 4: Compose your Applications

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Symfony 4 is going to be much more than just a cleaned-up version of Symfony 3.

The Symfony Trademark

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Symfony is a trademark and I’m trying to protect the brand with a trademark policy. Why?

Announcing 24 Days of Blackfire

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

It’s advent calendar time! Discover my new 24 days series about PHP performance optimization.

"Create your Own Framework" Series Update

Sun, 05 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Three years ago, I published a series of articles about how to create a framework on top of the Symfony components. An updated version is now available.

Blackfire, a new Profiler for PHP Developers

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The one where I talk about my latest project: Blackfire.io

PHP CS Fixer finally reaches version 1.0

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s celebrate version 1.0!

About Personal Github Accounts

Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I’m moving most of my projects to Github organizations.

The PHP Security Advisories Database

Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The PHP Security Advisories Database is now public domain and has moved to a new organization.

Signing Project Releases

Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

About a year ago, I started to sign all my Open-Source project releases. Here is how you verify the integrity of what you’ve installed in your project.

The rise of Composer and the fall of PEAR

Mon, 05 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The one where I explain my plans about my project PEAR channels.

SensioLabs raises 5 million euros to boost the Symfony ecosystem

Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Today, I’m really excited to announce that SensioLabs just raised 5 million euros (about 7 million dollars) to boost Symfony and its ecosystem.

Packing a Symfony full-stack Framework Application in one File -- Bootstrapping

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

In this second part of the series, we are going to install the Symfony Standard Edition and start cleaning it as much as possible.

Packing a Symfony full-stack Framework Application in one File -- Introduction

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This is the first part of a series of articles about packing a Symfony full-stack application in one file. This one explains why this might come in handy and why the challenge itself is interesting.

About Symfony: Stability over Features

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Everybody knows about “Convention over Configuration” introduced by Rails. What about “Stability over Features” for Symfony?

Don't use PHP libraries with known security issues

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The one where I announce the launch of security.sensiolabs.org.

Debugging Silex applications just got fun

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Enjoy using the Symfony Web Profiler into your Silex application.

Why Symfony?

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Choosing a PHP framework is not easy. Why would you choose Symfony over framework X?

PHP is much better than you think

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Rants about PHP are everywhere but do you really know what PHP can do for you nowadays?

Sami: Yet another PHP API documentation generator

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Today is my “let open source some of my private Github repositories” day, and more specifically, I’m releasing a bunch of code related to documentation.

Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 12)

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In the twelveth part, we are using a dependency injection container to make your framework truly configurable.

Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 11)

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In the eleventh part of the series, we are going to remove most of the code we have written so far!

Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 10)

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In the tenth part of the series, we are making the applications built with our framework faster thanks to HTTP caching.

Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 9)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In this ninth part of the series, our framework will become more extensible.

Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 8)

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In this eight part of the series, we are making our framework more robust by writing some unit tests for it.

Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 7)

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In this seventh part of the series, we are looking into refactoring our framework for better reusability.

Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 6)

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In this sixth part of the series, we are going to stat using the HttpKernel component.

Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 5)

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In this fifth part of the series, we are going to talk about controllers.

Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 4)

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In this fourth part of the series, we are going to use the Symfony2 Routing component.

Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 3)

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In this third part of the series, we are going to create our first “real” framework.

Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 2)

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In this second part of the series, we are going to use the Symfony2 HttpFoundation component.

Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 1)

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The first part of a series of articles where I will show you how to create your own framework based on the Symfony2 Components.

What is Symfony2?

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Last week, I held a keynote presentation about Symfony2 at the Symfony Day conference in Cologne. Many people asked me for the slides, but they were quite empty and not that useful. This blog post is more or less what I’ve said during the first part of the talk.

The PHP Ternary Operator: Fast or not?

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

People like micro-optimizations. They are easy to understand, easy to apply… and useless. But some time ago, while reviewing pull requests for Twig, I read an interesting discussion about the performance of the ternary operator in PHP. Here is what I learned.

Pragmatism over Theory: Protected vs Private

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I often favor pragmatism over theory; probably because programming is how I earn a living but also because I don’t have any computer science degree and what I know I’ve learned from my experience.

Twitter and Emails are good; Postcards are better

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I have a dream that one day I will receive a postcard each time a new Symfony website is deployed to production.

Iterator or IteratorAggregate?

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

A quick tip on iterators.

PHP Iterators and Streams are awesome

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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

Find your Files

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Parsing XML documents with CSS selectors

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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

Symfony Live Conference, Symfony 2.0, and Dependency Injection

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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.

The state of YAML in PHP

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

2009 Conferences Wrap-up

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Pirum, the Simple PEAR Channel Server Manager

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

PHP 5.3.0 on Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

How I compiled PHP 5.3 on my Snow Leopard laptop.

My first Zend Conference was a blast

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Templating engines in PHP - Follow-Up

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Templating Engines in PHP

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Swift Mailer Takeover

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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

Developers should be Artists

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Upcoming conferences

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Sourceforge Community Choice Awards: symfony is a Finalist!

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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

Pimple, the small dependency injection container for PHP 5.3

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The one where I talk about Pimple.

Tweeting from PHP

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Quick SSH Tip

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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

What for PHP6?

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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

On PHP 5.3, Lambda Functions, and Closures

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Symfony Service Container: The Need for Speed

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Symfony Service Container: Using XML or YAML to describe Services

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Symfony Service Container: Using a Builder to create Services

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Introduction to the Symfony Service Container

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Do you need a Dependency Injection Container?

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

What is Dependency Injection?

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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

Short URLs

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

PHP Serialization, Stack Traces, and Exceptions

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

print vs echo, which one is faster?

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Getting information from SVN with PHP

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Twitto - A web framework in a tweet

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Jobeet: The symfony 1.2 advent calendar

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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

A symfony tip: Unit test your Propel classes

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how to easily test your Propel classes

A symfony tip: Tweak Template Names

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how to customize the template used by your actions.

symfony 1.1 form framework and the MVC pattern

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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

A symfony tip: Customize Propel Generated SQL

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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).

A symfony tip: Upgrade a project running symfony 1.0

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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

A symfony tip: "Your name here"

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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

A symfony tip: Rename a symfony Module

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how to rename a symfony module step by step.

A symfony tip: Rename a symfony Application

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how to rename a symfony application step by step.

A symfony tip: Clear the cache without the command line

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Welcome to my Blog

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to my blog!

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

You are reading a blog about web technologies. It's written by Fabien Potencier — fabpot, the founder of , , and the project. My Open-Source Projects Symfony Twig PHP Coding Standards Fixer Pimple ... and many more on fabpot , symfony , and FriendsOfPHP Some older Open-Source Projects Silex SwiftMailer Goutte Sismo My PGP Key My fingerprint: DD4E C589 15FF 888A 8A3D D898 EB8A A69A 566C 0795