Screenfony – Symfony Video tutorial

Symfony ships with a great console component that allows you to run several useful tasks directly from CLI. Some of these commands are really popular and widely used by Symfony developers, while others are underused, even if they can really speed up your daily productivity. In this post I will see a bunch of them [...]

Recently I had the opportunity to work a bit with the Symfony security component. Let me tell you something: it is amazing. Ok, I know, it may not be the most easy to understand implementation in the world, but it is really flexible and allows you to do almost everything. Once you get it, you’ll love it. [...]

You can use Symfony2 to build pretty much any kind of web application and web service. Speaking of web services, REST is certainly one of the most popular architecture in these days, and the community provided some good solutions (FOSRestBundle)to implement your API. Our next screencast will cover this topic and we thought to share [...]

So, you’re working on this brand new, exciting, Symfony2 project that needs to store files somewhere. As you, like any good developer, enjoy simple solutions, you just store these files on filesystem. Fair enough, until the day when your boss comes to you talking about S3 and its great performance. That’s the moment when you [...]

Symfony allows developer to expand its functionalities with bundles. As a matter of fact, every single functionality of the framework comes from a bundle, and more are available from the community. You can really find a bundle that solves pretty much every common need that your application may have, but how can you search the [...]

Bootstrap is a well known and powerful front-end framework for fast prototyping, it uses LESS and it can be easily integrate in your Symfony applications with the help of assetic. In this tutorial I’ll show how to: Install bootstrap in you Symfony application Load it using assetic Compile bootstrap LESS files with lessphp

Managing users is a very common task in any web application. As a Symfony developer you want to focus on your application business logic and not on writing boring stuff like user registrations, reset password procedures and so on. Not need to mention our Drupal and WordPress friends, they will piss out of you working [...]

If you have written even the smallest Symfony2 app, you surely have perused the Symfony2 official documentation. If you haven’t had the chance of glancing over the cookbook, you should check it out now: it’s a collection of useful recipes and quick tutorials to solve common problems, written in a practical and direct way. At [...]

Communities are the hearth of every open source, symfony makes no exception. With Screenfony we are trying to make a living out of video tutorials for Symfony2, but we feel the importance of contributing back to the community.

Capifony is a deployment recipes collection for capistrano that works with both symfony and symfony2 applications. Capifony lets you deploy your symfony applications very very easily. Around the web you can find many good posts about deploying symfony application with capifony. Screenfony is about screencasts so that’s what we aim to share in this blog. [...]