Autoloading: Symfony vs Yii

PHP Autoloading consists about including files in an automated manner, using the __autoload magic function which is automatically

Symfony2, PhpBB4 and Drupal8

The last week I attended Drupal Latino conference. It was an interesting experience and I met really nice people, however a question arose in my head after attend th

Type and boolean columns with Doctrine and Symfony

Type and boolean columns are very common when designing a database, boolean columns are those which can have just two values: true or false. And type columns are those which can have a set of values.

Refactoring queries with Doctrine

Sometimes when programming, you need to do a series of queries to gather data to present to the user. A lot of times these queries are very similar, but because of time, the correct

Extending your Doctrine Model: Template Classes

A lot of times in the past, working with Symfony 1.X and Doctrine 1.X, I got

Integrating Doctrine: Symfony vs Yii

Continuing with Symfony vs Yii series, in this post will be show how to integrate t

Passing parameters from the action to the view: Symfony vs Yii

This is the first post in the Symfony vs Yii series, that compare common functionalities between Symfony 1 and

Yii framework

The last week I have started a new project that requires to learn a new framework. This new framework is Yii, as it home page says: "The Fast, Secure and Professio

Adding custom information to your Doctrine schema

Sometime ago I needed to add some custom information to each of my Doctrine 1 tables in a schema. It was for  an interesting and time saving functionality I will descr

PHP Advent Calendar 2010

Every year from the 1st until the 24th of december the PHP community has the PHP Advent Calendar. Every day in this period of time is published a new article for our rejoic

Sending email with PHPMailer and Gmail

Tonight a friend asked me to help him to send an email with PHP as soon as possible. Right now I utilize SwiftMailer but the fastest way was with

Your feedback is important: Symfony2 PR4

The last week Symfony2 PR4 was released. Symfony2 is the

Symfony base global validator: sfGlobalValidator

Usually, when creating a new general validator for a symfony 1 form there are some steps you must follow. These steps are repeated everytime a new general validator

Symfony genUrl method

Symfony genUrl is one of the most used methods on symfony 1 series (I'm not sure if it is called the same way in

Process Requirements in software engineering

To develope a successful system requirements must be gathered in the best way possible. Requirements fall into two categories: functional and non-functional. We will talk about non-functional:

Propel2 and Doctrine2: Together but not scrambled

Eleven days ago, the core team from the Propel Project was discussing about its future. Some thought that this meeting was just to give a final "rest in peace" to Propel, however th

Product Requirements in software engineering

In software engineering, to successfuly develope a whole systems project from the start to the end without major setbacks, the requirements

Full highlighting functionality with symfony, Geshi and TinyMCE

Most of the time when displaying programming code in a web page is better to see it highlighted. It is better for the visitors who try to read the code, to see it highlighted like in an

Highlight code with symfony and Geshi

Sometimes when showing some code in the web, the usual IDE code highlighting is gone. That colors, which make visua

Deadlock in real life

Real life deadlock... I thought about this concept some time ago while studying concurrency between processes. I had a good situation in my mind, one in which there we

Symfony basic SEO tips

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is very important, if a consistent stream of visitor traffic is desired for a web

PageRank and comments relationship

Search engines as Google, Bing and Yahoo all have a list of search engine algorithms that determine the rankings of the different web pages in the list that is presented when doing a search. These algorithms are based on a system of positive and negati

Circular table relations in a symfony project

Circular relations in the database occur when a foreign key of one table is included in a separate table, whilst at the same time a further foreign key is located in the first table. Usually this is not desirable because it can produce many problems wh

Colorize your Windows console life with symfony

For many years, Windows and symfony users have been neglected the right to see stylis

Nice urls with symfony

Usually when working with symfony, when the time comes to deploy the application, one problem arises, the urls.

While developing a normal url could be: http://www.jni

Refactoring

According to Wikipedia Code refactoring is the process of changing a computer program's source code without modifying its external functional behavior

Welcome to my blog

This will be the first post in my new blog, which will be about new web development and technology.

In general I am going to post about web technologies such as PHP, javascript, css;