program

Talks

Both the workshop and the talks are held in English.

09:00

Entrance

09:30

Welcome

Introduction, forming groups for the workshop.

10:00

Doctrine MongoDB Object Document Mapper

Jonathan Wage

With all the hype around MongoDB in the database world these days, Doctrine quickly jumped on creating an object mapper for it. Now, just like for relational databases you can transparently persist your PHP domain model to MongoDB in a fast and efficient way.

11:15

Session 2

Pierre Joye

To be announced

12:30

Unit testing symfony plugins with PHPUnit

Christian Schaefer

When developing symfony plugins for use and reuse in your projects and maybe (hopefully) by the symfony community you want to make sure that a new release doesn't break with backwards compatibility. While symfony comes with lime the de facto standard for unit testing in PHP is PHPUnit and it offers much more. This session will show you some of the best practices of testing symfony plugins. You will learn how to organise your tests and how to reduce your dependencies to the bare essentials.

13:30

Lunch

14:30

Advanced symfony Techniques

Kris Wallsmith

Go beyond the documentation and explore some of what's possible if you stretch symfony to its limits. We will look at a number of aspects of symfony 1.4 and Doctrine 1.2 and tease out some powerful functionality you may not have expected to find, but will doubtless be able to use. Topics covered will include routing, forms, the config cache and record listeners. If you're comfortable in symfony and wondering what's next, this session is for you.

15:45

Framework or CMS

Gaylord Aulke

Frameworks are cool. There are many, they are powerful, they help. Large parts of the php developer community have realized that a framework is the way to go. But how do i "sell" this to the management and customers? When to choose a framework and when to use a CMS or eCommerce system? The talk gives some decision support and reasoning for framework adoption based on real-life examples.

17:00

The State of Symfony2

Fabien Potencier

About a year ago, I announced that Symfony2 would be PHP 5.3 only. What have we done since then? In this session, I will talk about the latest additions made to the framework, and I will demonstrate how you can leverage the power of the newest Symfony components.

18:15

Raffle


Workshop

The workshop will be led by symfony Community Manager Stefan Koopmanschap from Utrecht.

Get to know symfony - at the end of the day, you will have completed your first running prototype app!

We are going to cover topics such as:

Stefan and the symfony Day team are going to help with any specific questions you may have.

For this workshop, it is required that you bring your own notebook with a basic up and running PHP development environment, including Apache 2, PHP 5.2.4 or newer, and a Mysql server.