Symfony Live 2010 and Symfony 2.0

I have attended Symfony Live 2010 in Paris. It was really nice experience for me to see paris, and symfony community. and symfony core team as well. Fabien announced Symfony 2.0 at the end of the conference, which was exciting and amazing news for the community. It is going to be completely different than the previous versions, and currently it is ready on the www.symfony-reloaded.org for the usage. At the end of this year, it is going to be launched officially as stable version. Symfony 2.0 will going to be very fast, and very flexible framework. Currently we use Symfony 1.4 for the most of our projects. But at the end of this year, we will migrate into 2.0 version as soon as it become stable.

About the conference, you can find all the presentations here, here, and here

and you also can find some photos of mine, and many others

Outsource your Symfony and Zend framework applications

It is been quite long time since we have chose Symfony and Zend framework as a PHP5 development. I was wondering how we were developing using plain PHP. It was all pain! The only best way was to create our custom framework and use it on all projects. These frameworks are the best practice and result of what PHP developers used in the past to create their web applications. We now focused on the web application outsourcing under the company Singleton LLC, which i founded a year ago. Our team is now capable of building small to medium sized web applications using these framework. Having developed tens of projects, we now see that we should really be different from other teams in India, or Pakistan. We should develop in such a way not to earn money in a shortest time, but to work in a detail-oriented ways to deliver what customer exactly wished. To deliver running application is not the final result, and it shouldn't be the outsourcing goal even for small teams like us. So we really focused on details, and comminication. We understood that we need more than just a coding.

On the other side, the are buyers who wish to have their software codes in a cheapest and shortest way, while the others are looking for someone who can implement their ideas in quite cheap but qualified way. We'd rather to work with the companies who are looking for qualified team, but the quite reasonable price. Our aim is not to become the cheaper than others, but more qualified.

If you are looking for a responsive and responsible team to implement your ideas into real life, we are available for hire. You can outsource your Symfony and Zend Framework projects to us.

Thanks,
Bayar

Symfony vs Zend framework vs Cakephp vs Others

You are here because you are trying to compare these PHP frameworks to each other. You are spending your time for nothing. These frameworks are all have their own features and purposes. Zend framework is not actually framework, it is just library of useful PHP components, While cakephp and symfony are port of ROR into PHP. If you are familiar with PHP, you don't need to start new language, ruby. Instead you can use either of them. My choice was Symfony. Maybe you will like cakephp. Do not try to compare them. Just start from one of them and you will see how easy to switch among them after learning the general MVC structure and usage. Just start.

Why you should use Symfony?

Actually, you can find plenty of reason why or why not you should use symfony framework. I think advantageous facts are much more than its disadvantages. Thierry Schellenbach has listed 10 reasons why you should use Symfony.

1. Ajax and Javascript
2. Instant admin interface: Advanced crud generation for admin interface
3. Nice Urls: The Routing System
4. Form Handling: Fillin, Validation and Creation
5. Debugging on Steroids
6. Internationalization and Localization (i18n & L10n)
7. Caching
8. Development environments
9. Do not repeat yourself!
10. Bridges to other frameworks

As you see, these reasons are enough for anyone who wish to rapidly develop web2.0 style web applications. Please find whole article from here.
http://www.mellowmorning.com/2007/08/18/ten-reasons-why-symfony-rocks-part-1/
http://www.mellowmorning.com/2007/09/08/ten-reasons-why-symfony-rocks-part-2/

Zend vs Symfony framework

I wrote about my decision to go on with Zend framework. Few days ago, i already posted an article, review, resources and tutorials about ZF here. Then i went through that articles and tutorials, spent about two weeks just for reading and learning. Let me say that related resources are not enough on Zend framework. It was very difficult for me to find howtos on any topic related to ZF.

Instead i visited Symfony website, and found there everything needed to go forward. There is a great online free book of Symfony, explaining everything in detail and tutorial directory, trac, wiki, and plugins repository. I warmed up very fast and changed my mind. Now i am far from that days, and very happy with Symfony Framework. And i know that i can integrate Zend framework components into my Symfony application when it is needed.

Symfony is a real MVC framework that makes web application development easier and faster, while Zend framework is not a framework, just container for useful components or libraries. Zend framework doesn't have command line tools, crud generator, plugins etc... which means you have to stilllll repeat your codes, and spend time on useless boring tasks like CRUD.