tag: Symfony

As announced last week The eZ Publish Show continued today. We were broadcasting live from Google+ Hangout and recorded video of the episode #16 is now available on Youtube.

Guest were Kris Wallsmith from OpenSky and Lukas Kahwe Smith from Liip. The main idea was to introduce Symfony to eZ Community: Easy Symfony

There are many reasons why we invest so much time and effort into organizing eZ Publish Summer Camp. I will not count them here. Rather, I'll talk about a very sensitive period for the eZ community which started a year ago and will last for several years more.

In our first blog post about Symfony2 we discussed really just some basic stuff. We want to go further with this series and the next logical step is to talk about the MVC: Model View Controller implementation. It is the main pattern in which web apps are made these days. And it is also the main reason why eZ 5 is using Symfony2.

You might think that working with PDF documents in your PHP application would be a breeze. And you would be right, as long as you are generating the documents from scratch. There are a couple of PHP libraries that are really solid and give you lots of features when creating PDF documents. One of them is TCPDF, a free library (a single class, to be exact) written in pure PHP. However, when it comes to filling out PDF forms, you're out of luck. Not only is there no PHP solution (or I'm not aware of one) for filling out PDF forms seamlessly, but solutions that do exist often do not work 100%.

It is always a pleasure to come to Cologne. It is maybe not as attractive as last years Partner Conference location (Lisbon), but it definetaly has it charms - read: lot of Koelsh beer and interesting people :)

It has been a long time since I started to learn some new development tool from scratch. For years we are using eZ Publish CMS for our web projects. Of course, we also use other technologies from the stack (PHP, MySQL, Solr, CSS, Javascript, etc.) but the main platform is eZ. With new eZ Publish version 5 we got one new tool in the stack: Symfony PHP framework.