Last week Lukas, Pierre and myself attended the Symfony Live 2010 conference since we have a growing interest in it lately, including a pilot project at Liip that uses symfony 1.4.

Overall the conference was quite a success I would say, they had a few organizational issues but considering it was the first international event of that scale they hosted it was really good. Most talks revolved around symfony and also doctrine since it's a major part of the symfony ecosystem, but a few sessions were held on more general topics, such as PHP performance, deploying apps to the cloud or Zend Framework. Lukas and I spoke about Liip's framework Okapi since it's second iteration, that is still in the works, is using a few symfony components. As we mentioned there we decided to use them to alleviate some of the maintenance work and benefit from the dependency injection feature, which offers amazing opportunities for customization and testing. Our slides can be found on slideshare and the Okapi2 source on our svn repository.

The highlight of the conference was obviously the announcement and release of the Symfony 2 codebase. Symfony 2, just like Okapi 2, is based on the Symfony dependency injection container component, which means it will have the same flexibility. Given the community it has, it is definitely an interesting development for us and we will follow its development closely. If it happens to fit our requirements as well as Okapi does for fully custom high performance websites we might adopt it but it is too early to say since it won't be stable until the end of the year.

Gilles Doge @ 22.02.2010 13:26 CEST
Nice to see more Swiss company interested in the symfony framework !

Interesting slides, you grap the best of the framework (DI, Routing, Yaml, Request handler, ...).

Why not the templating component ?

Jordi Boggiano @ 22.02.2010 13:51 CEST
Liip has a pretty big XSLT background, so we use that for most Okapi project, and got one project using Dwoo (http://dwoo.org) now since I'm Dwoo's lead dev and our team doesn't fancy XSL too much. I guess that explains it.

abcphp.com @ 22.02.2010 14:01 CEST (Trackback)
Last week Lukas, Pierre and myself attended the Symfony Live 2010 conference since we have a growing interest in it lately, including a pilot project at Liip that uses symfony 1.4.

Gilles Doge @ 22.02.2010 14:39 CEST
Ok, I understand :-)

pascal liaison @ 22.02.2010 15:44 CEST
Symphony has still really a lot to prove! I am a big symphony fan and I was really pleased by the conference.
I am on your side and I cannot wait to find the time to test symphony 2 (I have so much work at the moment).

jaycreation @ 29.06.2010 12:40 CEST
I'm waiting for the conference on Symfony 4. Do you know anything about it ?