Fabien Potencier

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.

My first exposure to YAML was in 2001, back in the days when I was mainly working with Perl.

This year, I traveled in 7 countries for PHP conferences, giving a total of 12 talks.

Some weeks ago during the Zend Conference, I quietly released Pirum, a simple PEAR channel server manager.

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.

My post about template engines in PHP had now more than 70 comments, and counting.

So, you think PHP is a templating engine?

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.

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.

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.

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.

With the last article on Dependency Injection, you learned how to describe services with PHP code by using the sfServiceContainerBuilder class.

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.

Until now in this series on Dependency Injection, we have talked about general concepts.

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

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.

Yesterday, I fixed a bug that looks very weird at first.

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.

Last year, I deployed a new tool to manage symfony plugins.

Some days ago, I started to use twitter.

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.

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