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Excellent tutoriel proposé par DanSteph à http://www.dansteph.com/backupftp.php

Merci à lui.

Symfony is an open source web application framework for PHP5 projects. As a framework, it aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.

Main features

• PHP5 (OO)
• MVC pattern
• Follows the RAD paradigm
• Database agnostic
• ORM layer built on propel
• Internationalization layer
• YAML config files
• Built-in forms validation/repopulation
• Cache management
• Authentication and credential features
• URL rewriting
• Built-in paging, sorting and filtering features
• Plug-ins system
• Ajax ready

The purpose here is not to replace the very complete documentation of Symfony. It's just a kind of "roadmap summary" of what I'have done until now with Symfony.

Installation

Thanks to the large documentation of Symfony, the installation has been very easy on my Linux Gentoo (PHP 5.2.1):

1. Install Symfony core

As I can't use pear on my server, I downloaded the latest version trough SVN:

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(and that's it!)

2. Setting up a new project

Symfony consists of a hierarchy of 3 pieces:

• a project
• application(s)
• modules

2.1 Create the project

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Symfony will create a (quiet explicit) directory structure that looks like this:

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2.2 Create the application

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This will create a [

] directory in the [

] folder of the project root, with a default application configuration and a set of directories ready to host the file of your website:

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Some PHP files corresponding to the front controllers of each default environment are also created in the project [

] directory:

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[

] is the production front controller of the new application. To run your application in the development environment, call the front controller [

].

Set up your Apache config:

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2.3 Create a module skeleton

To add a [

] module to this application, type the following commands:

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Difficile d’annoncer le programme d’un blog qui ne se veut pas forcément centré sur un sujet précis. Travaillant depuis plusieurs années « dans le web », l’envie m’a pris seulement il y a quelques temps, au détour de quelques blogs bien faits.

Concernant le choix de l’outil, pas vraiment de doutes. Ayant déjà installés et adaptés différents systèmes de blogs, WordPress fut l’usual suspect, tant pour sa flexibilité (thèmes et plugins) que pour son backoffice sobre et intuitif.
J’ai installé celui-ci sur une Gentoo (Apache 2, PHP 5, MySQL 5) en moins de temps qu’il n'en faut pour le dire. Ca tourne plutôt bien !

Mon leitmotiv: le faire bien sans se prendre la tête. Partager mon expérience quotidienne de java et ses frameworks... Enjoy and feedback!