After more than one year since symfony 1.0 was released, symfony 1.1 goes more and more mature each day. Recent RC releases are a proof of it, but many people are still concerned about whether or not they should migrate.
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Tuesday, February 26 2008
I'd like to hear a Kwatuor play nice symfonic music
By Romain Dorgueil on Tuesday, February 26 2008, 23:58
Today's post is a bit special.
This can be took as a question.
Or a call to developpers that have specific blogging needs.
Since quite a moment I used dotclear for blogging. That suit my needs, in some way, but maybe I'm more adaptating my needs to dotclear's capabilities. Maybe you're using wordpress. or any other. And I guess that must be the same for you, thinking for example of integrating one of those all-in-one blogging/cms platforms cleanly in another website, for example, is being more than utopian...
By clean I mean integrating it without having to duplicate the template. Neither having to use all functionalities if you only need a simple article list somewhere... And without being limited if you need to display the headers of those on another website...
I'd better not speak of blog networks communicating, or taking content from RSS/XML/anything feed in a flexible way.
So today I'd like to announce the birth of Kwatuor. Kwatuor is a blog platform project using symfony and doctrine, that will in the near future use doctrine migrations to get content from an existing dotclear/wordpress project, or any other source platform someone has enough need with he'd take the time to write migration classes for.
Templating system will be different. I'm still hesitating between a generator approach (generated partials from a dynamic skeleton, that all can be customizable) and a real proper template system (but still any part would be customizable). Only major difference with blogging platform would be the total forbidding of DRY-breaks a dotclear-like templating system is doing everyday. And this extends to integrated blogs, in wider projects.
In fact I started developing it for my own needs, but I think this is typically the kind of project everybody would need someday. Maybe you hate being jailed in your obscure, yet very good, but specific and... even more obscure blog platform.
So I'm wondering now, if people (you :p) would be interested in this project. If so, I'll make a public SVN/trac next week, so concerned users will be able to give feedback with code in their hands. Would this be usefull to you? Would you contribute to this open-source project? Do you have good (or bad :p) ideas about concepts to take in consideration from the beginning?
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Sunday, October 28 2007
Testing Symfony 1.1
By Romain Dorgueil on Sunday, October 28 2007, 12:03
Wondering what symfony 1.1 will look like? Well, I couldn't hold my curiosity neither, so I upgraded one of my websites to symfony 1.1, and I describe here how to setup a box to run both versions. The upgrade process being definitive for a given project, make backups or svn commit before upgrading.
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