Poetry of Programming

The happiness of running the first Symfony project is very often spoiled by a message displayed on the first Symfony-based web page:

Congratulations! You have successfully created your symfony project.

Project setup successful

This project uses the symfony libraries. If you see no image in this page, you may need to configure your web server so that it gains access to the symfony_data/web/sf/ directory.

The proper configuration of the web server seems to be the most troublesome part of Symfony installation. But fortunately there are several quick ways to solve that problem. This short guide will describe two of them from the perspective of an Apache web server user. Read the rest of this entry »

The Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded error can be annoying when executing “heavy” PHP scripts (involving lots of data processing) and it’s also a frequent follow-up of running Apache web servers on Windows machines (for example when testing Symfony projects on your local PC). But no worries! - there are couple of easy ways to solve this problem. Read the rest of this entry »

Symfoclipse is an optimal Symfony Framework development environment integrated with Eclipse. Easy to install and use is probably the best choice for anyone who has just started developing projects in Symfony.

The plug-in ads a Symfony view to Eclipse which extends the normal PHP Perspective in PDT (PDT stands for PHP Development Tools) an gives us a direct access to all framework-defined actions plus there’s a helpful YAML editor included for Symfony configuration files ( and last but not least a nice ‘s’ icon appears next to Symfony projects ). Read the rest of this entry »

Are you wondering how to convert px to pt? When creating (or modifying) a style sheet have you ever tried to guess how many pixels corresponds to the size in points? I did :). That’s why I decided to put together a conversion table :). Enjoy. Read the rest of this entry »

How to quickly and easily install Symfony Framework on Windows? A 15 minute guide that will let you start the fun right away!

I’m assuming that you’re working on Windows XP or Vista and starting from scratch - that means without any WWW server configured on the machine. Read the rest of this entry »