Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
At the moment at Kent we're considering our options for CMS. We've been looking at enterprise CMS, and had a few fairly impressive demos of their capabilities.
But at the end of one demo, someone asked the sales guy why we should pay almost double the price for a licence than ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Routing rules in symfony are a way of getting simple url's looking the way you want. So rather than ugly things that show everyone how your system works like:
matthewbull.net/index.php?id=3&detail=false&category=true&year=2008
you can have things like:
matthewbull.net/id/3/detail/false/category/true/year/2008
Even better than that, using symfony's routing system allows you to completely decouple a url from your code. ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
I've recently been deploying some symfony (http://www.symfony-project.org/) applications at The University of Kent. I'm pleased with the results.
Symfony is an MVC framework, along the lines of Ruby on Rails, but based on PHP5. It is widely used, including yahoo bookmarks:
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000376.html
and the beta of the new version of del.icio.us:
http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2007/10/02/delicious-preview-built-with-symfony
Why?
So why did I ...
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