Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

Just want to inform you that my sfAmfPlugin for Symfony-Flex-Communication was released in version 1.3.0.

Most noticeable changes:

• Fixing a bug with PHP Strict mode (thanks to Daniel Holmes for spotting this one)
• Adding the possibility to store the services in all lib-folders of a project (app, module, project, plugins)
• Fixing different bugs with AMF conversion of Doctrine objects (thanks to Patrick Schirch for bugging me about them)

I’m still working to get the Doctrine support better, there will be much more about this in the next version of the plugin. Class mapping is also a thing I want to improve a lot. So stay tuned and watch out for future versions

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Hi,

just for your information: I released the version 1.2.3 of the sfAmfPlugin earlier this day. The new version is a pretty important update so please install the new version.

The most important change is the fix of the bug taht caused problems with the usage of packages for the service classes

Installation as always:

$> symfony plugin:install sfAmfPlugin

If you want more information about the plugin vistit the symfony plugin page or read the the HelloWorld example blog post.

Timo

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Hi all,

i just released the new version 1.2.0 of the AMF-Plugin for Symfony (http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfAmfPlugin/1_2_0)

There are some new features in this version:

• Updated SabreAMF to the most current version 1.2.203
• Added a fix for Service-Classes with packages in the class name
• More work on comments and documentation
• Added Symfony 1.2.0 compatibility
• Added a new commandline-task with that you can create a new Service class

The most important new feature is the new task. You can now create a service class via command line:

$ symfony amf:create-service User will create a file /lib/services/UserService.class.php

$symfony amf:create-service –package=de.shiftup.project User will create  /lib/services/se/shiftup/project/UserService.class.php

Get it while it is hot

As always: Feedback wanted!

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So in a recent symfony-zone article about “the best Symfony IDE: PHPEdit“, the author recommended using PHPEdit.   Problem is PHPEdit doesn’t have a Mac OS X version according to their requirements page as of this date.

So for now using Zend Studio or BBEdit is probably your best bet.  Haven’t tried Netbeans, but at least one developer I know still uses it.  Of course you could just use vi if all else fails.

One last thing, Zend Studio probably won’t ever have any first party support for symfony being that Zend Studio’s parent company has their own framework; so I would’t hold my breath for that.

If you think about the best IDE you will probably think about eclipse with the PDT-Plugin, Netbeans or Kommodo. None of them has special support for the Symfony-Framework. As I wrote in an earlier post I’m using eclipse for my daily work. With some enhancements it is a pretty good IDE for Symfony-Development. Netbeans catched up with the last releases an there is a special Symfony-Support planned in one of the future releases.

Last week there was a new release of the Windows-PHP-IDE PHPEdit. Since Version 3.2 there is an excellent Symfony support in this IDE.  A bunch of features makes the development with Symfony a lot more productive. I couldn’t resist and took a deeper look at this software. It was the first time that I used PHPEdit an I’m surprised on how good it is.

Wizards

PHPEdit has a lot of wizards for creating Symfony-Projects and different Symfony artifacts (i.e. modules, actions…). For developers who dont know all of the symfony command line tasks and all of their parameters, these wizards are a great help.

Commands

PHPEdit installs a plugin that allows the IDE to get information about all tasks of the current project. The context menu of the project is file-sensitive. So you will get other tasks in the context menu when clicking on a application than clicking on a module or project. All Symfony tasks are available via context menu. Most of them with an upcoming wizard in which you can set the parameters by mouse clicks

Code Completion and Editor

The Editor has everything you can think of and support for all neccessary file formats (i.e. YAML) are included. Code-Folding,Line-Numbers, Smart Idention and others are available. Plus you have a great IntelliSense support. The Editor knows even the Symfony-Framework functions of the classes. You can jump between Actions and View-Template what is solving one of the most annoying problems if you are working on a large project and have a lot of action.class.php files open.

Conclusion

The makers of PHPEdit did a wunderful job. The symfony support is how I it should be in every IDE

Beside of this Framework-Specific features there is all you need for PHP-Development. A good PHP-Editor with IntelliSense and PHP-Debugging, Project management, everything is on board and pretty good. The only drawback is that PHPEdit is not freely available. It has a commercial license starting with 89.- Euros for the basic feature edition. If you are not using windows another drawback is that PHPEdit is only available for windows.

I’m still surprised why I never used this IDE before because it has everything you need for PHP development. Maybe it was because of its commercial license. For now it is the best Symfony IDE. The Framework-Support is outstanding. Lets see how the planned Symfony-Support in Netbeans can compete with this.

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The Definitive Guide to symfony

Well after my last book, I’m now reading The Definitive Guide to symfony.

My new job has me working with the symfony Framework instead of the Zend Framework I used to use.

Here’s an excerpt from the book:

“Why ‘symfony‘ and not ‘FooBarFramework’? Because Fabien wanted a short name containing an s, as in Sensio, and an f, as in framework–easy to remember and not associated with another development tool. Also, he doesn’t like capital letters. symfony was close enough, even if not completely English, and it was also available as a project name. The other alternative was ‘baguette’.“

Hello all,I just anounced the dates and locations for my german symfony trainings/workshops. The workshops take place in Stuttgart, Hamburg and Berlin. Language of the workshops is german. 
You can find more information and prices at the following training-website
Maybe we can see us at one of these events :-)    

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Hi all,times are changing. For a lot of my projects I use a JavaScript only Web UI based on toolkits like ExtJs or qooxdoo. These applications are composed of a lot JS-Files located in the web/js folder of the Symfony-project.One of my problems i always had was that I had no chance to use Symfony Helper-Functions in those files. Especially the I18N and URL-Helper functions were missed badly.Over the time I came up with a solution the works great for me. Maybe it is usefull for you too… (more…)

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