Matthew Bull

web development

IWMW 2008

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Off to Aberdeen today! Hopefully this year's conference bag will be even better than last year's...

symfony and LDAP

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I've recently been looking at the essential (ie why isn't it included in the core?) symfony plugin sfGuard. It offers are really nice, simple way of building a simple user, role, and permissions system into your symfony app. The great thing is that with a little tweaking (documentation not great) you ...

symfony

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 ...