tl;dr Download phpdoc-to-typehint, it will automatically add scalar type hints and return type declarations to your PHP project using existing PHPDoc annotations. PHP 7 will be released soon. Scalar type hints and return type declarations introduced in this new release are very interesting because they enforce the use of stricter types in PHP code. They are less error-prone and ease the…
How to make high performance API powered webapps with Symfony (Symfony Live)
I was speaking about cloud computing, APIs and JavaScript Single Page Application at the Symfony Live San Francisco conference. Here are my slides: Open the slides in full screen
See you at these upcoming PHP conferences
I’ll speak about API Platform and Symfony at some PHP conferences until the end of 2015: Symfony Live, San Francisco (October 29th) Leveraging a cloud computing infrastructure to build high performance Symfony webapps I’ll present how to tune Symfony webapps to be as efficient and as robust as possible thanks to cloud computing platforms. I’ll detail…
New in Symfony 2.8/3.0: services autowiring
Symfony 3.0, the next major version of our preferred PHP framework, will be released in a few weeks. Basically, it shares the same code base as Symfony 2.8 but all deprecated features coming from older versions have been removed to simplify the framework and its maintenance: Symfony 3 deprecation progress report. #symfony pic.twitter.com/Nz4pMZZwU4 — Symfony News (@symfony_en) October 6, 2015 Symfony 2.8…
API Platform 1.0 released! Version 2.0 announced.
Spread the word: after months of development the first stable version of the API Platform framework has finally been released! API Platform is a next-generation PHP web framework designed to create API-first projects easily but without compromise in the field of extensibility and flexibility: Use our awesome code generator to bootstrap a fully-functional data model from Schema.org vocabularies with…
Using PSR-7 with Symfony (sfPot)
Here are the slides of my talk of yesterday about PSR-7 and Symfony. Watch them in full screen.
Deploying Symfony and API Platform apps on Heroku easily
I’ve just published a new library and a tutorial to deploy easily Symfony and API Platform applications in Heroku, the popular Platform As A Service. The tutorial explains how to set up and deploy an application with a database (Heroku Postgres or MySQL ClearDB), using the log managing system provided by Heroku (Logplex) and using environment variables to define Symfony parameters…
Talk à propos de PSR-7 et Symfony ce jeudi à Lille
Ce jeudi je donnerai une présentation lors du sfPot de Lille à propos de l’utilisation de PSR-7 avec le framework Symfony. Tristan Maindron interviendra lui au sujet du déploiement de Symfony dans des environnements Heroku-like. Avis aux intéressés, je viens d’ailleurs de publier une petite bibliothèque à ce sujet. Attention : inscription gratuite mais obligatoire (voir le…
Vidéo : construire des applications API-centric avec API Platform et Symfony
Voici la vidéo de la présentation que j’ai donné lors du Symfony Live 2015 à propos de API Platform, une solution pour construire des applications web modernes reposant sur une API REST hypermedia et auto-découvrable.
Introducing API Platform (beta): the next generation PHP web framework
Update: API Platform now has a dedicated website with an up to date version of the following tutorial. PHP celebrates its 20 years this week. In 20 years, the web changed dramatically and is now evolving faster than ever: Now that they are indexed by Google and thanks to awesome frontend technologies such as AngularJS or React, full-Javascript webapps are becoming the standard. Since 2014…