269 posts tagged with "PHP"

The first time I am toying with Silex and the Symfony components. To demo an application for one of our customers, we quickly set-up Silex and put a small application on top. Since the application was in need for a I18N solution, I threw in the TranslationServiceProvider. The documentation of Silex states that "you can simply clone the whole Symfony2 into vendor" which did not make any sense to me. Why using a micro-framework when I have to have Symfony2 installed just for the translation part? I was looking for an alternative and remembered Composer. Composer is a tool written in PHP that helps you manage your project or libraries' dependencies. Luckily, the Symfony2 components are using Composer, so we can easily install the required dependencies like this:

As stated last year, our Liquibase Extension for Phing got merged in the master development branch with the help of Michiel Rook. The next steps will be to provide a decent kind of documentation as well as some already planned optimizations. If everything works out fine, you should be able to use Liquibase soonish from Phing without any work-a-rounds. As always, we are looking for pointers for improvement and general feedback. In a soon to follow blog post I’ll try to describe how we use Liquibase in one of your projects.

Am 19.01.2012 trifft sich die PHP Usergroup Frankfurt zum ersten Mal in 2012. Ich werde zu diesem Anlass den Vortag Facebook for (PHP) Developers präsentieren und von unseren Erfahrungen aus drei Jahren Entwicklung mit der Facebook API berichten.

Vom 27.01.2012 bis zum 28.01.2012 findet in Antwerpen die PHPBenelux conference statt. Ich freue mich mit dem Vortag "The state of DI in PHP" als Sprecher dabei sein zu dürfen. Neben vielen interessanten Vorträgen werden Workshops mit Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Ivo Jansch, Fabien Potencier und Thorsten Rinne angeboten. Der Early Bird Kartenvorverkauf läuft zurzeit noch, sodass Karten recht günstig zu erwerben sind.

Am 28.10.2011 und 29.10.2011 findet in Barcelona die PHP Barcelona Conference 2011 statt. Ich freue mich in diesem Jahr als Sprecher mit dem Vortag "Real World Dependency Injection" dabei sein zu dürfen.

Just as a side note, since I lately got some trouble passing the private key to the openssl_pkey_get_private() function. I was following a hint on the net but I did not succeed. The reason was a slight misunderstanding on my side: You can pass the private key to the function in two ways: Either a string containing the private key or a string containing location of the private key file on the harddisk. The latter one was the one I was struggling with. In case you want to use a file that contains the private key you need to pass the protocol identifier. If the protocol identifier is missing the function seems to think the string contains the private key, not the location of the private key. So, if you want to refer to the file /tmp/private.key the string needs to look this: file:///tmp/private.key

I am happy to announce that bitExpert will contribute the Liquibase Phing codebase to the Phing project. The transition phase will start pretty soon. Unfortunately, this means that the source code will no longer be maintained on github, instead the Phing subversion repository will be the new home for the extension.

"Testing untestable code" geht um die Welt: Nach Frankfurt, Antwerpen, Nashville, Verona, Hamburg und Düsseldorf freue ich mich den Vortag bei der PHPCon PL 2011 halten zu dürfen. Die conference findet vom 21.10.2011 bis zum 23.10.2011 in der Nähe von Kielce in Polen statt.

After reading a blog post about a Dependency Injection container in PHP, I just tweeted for curiosity why PHP developers have not yet agreed on a common standard for the behavior of a DI container. Stefan Koopmanschap jumped into the discussion and proposed I should start a movement in this particular area. He suggested that Fabien Potencier (Symfony Lead Developer) as well as David Zülke (Chief Agavi fanboy) and Matthew Weier O'Phinney (Zend Framework lead developer) should team up with me. David got hooked immediately, and I am looking forward to meeting the gang at phpDay.it in Verona for the first round of discussions. In case you want to contribute as well, feel free to join us or blog about this movement :)

Bei der Developer Conference, die vom 20.05.2011 bis zum 21.05.2011 in Hamburg stattfindet, werde ich den Vortrag "Testing untestable code" halten.