31 posts tagged with "Symfony"

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 a 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: