Symfony Israel: Introduction

Keynote of the first Symfony Israel Meetup in Tel Aviv!

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1. Symfony Israel Introduction to Symfony
2. Meetups • 1 Meetup every month • 2 - 3 presentations of half an hour • Pub/Beer after the presentations
3. Goals • Build Symfony community in Israel • Sharing knowledge • Trends (DI ,DDD) • Jobs
4. Symfony Live TLV
5. Jonathan Bensaid • 31 years old • 3 years in Israel • 5 years in the French Air Force • Worked with Symfony 1.4 and 2 since 2010 • Developer PHP/Javascript @CodeOasis
6. Sorry but… … I don’t eat frogs
7. Almog Baku • Entrepreneur. CEO at GoDisco, madfaka~! • Web developer for 9 years • http://www.godisco.net/ • http://www.almogbaku.com/ • http://www.github.com/AlmogBaku
8. And you ?
9. Beavoo • 2010 Graduated from HMBA Beer Sheva • Begin to work on my first start up • Full automatized Jobs finder application for temporary worker
10. After 3 months… • Unmaintainable code • Impossible to redesign the website easily • Bugs everywhere
11. Behold Symfony!! • Sensio Framework by Fabien Potencier • First version launched in October 2005 • Version 2.0 in 2011 • Used by Wix, Yahoo, Dailymotion, Drupal 8, YouPorn, phpBB4 • Huge Community!!
12. Why using a framework ? • Don’t reinvent the wheel • Focus on business logic • Standards (Community, Jobs) • Bullet proof • Help from the community
13. Symfony • MVC framework • Follow the Http Request • Dependency Injection • Standalone components • Organized in Bundles • Over than 2200 bundles in OpenSource • Composer • Doctrine/Propel
14. Lean Startup
15. Model View Controller
16. Http Request
17. Warning!! You don’t use a framework for everything!! 4 Reasons why all PHP frameworks suck • Overkill • Not optimized • Duplicating functionalities • Loading unused classes
18. Alternatives • Light frameworks (silex) • Components (Symfony components) • CMS (Drupal) • Pure PHP code • Free online solutions (Wix)
19. Learning • Tutorials • Guru blogs • Twitter • Youtube • IRC
20. Look at the big picture • Responsabilities (Class, Function) • Design Patterns • Approach (REST, DDD, SOLID)
21. Knp University http://knpuniversity.com
22. Blogs • Blog of Fabien • Blog of Matthias Noback (Symfony Doc) • Blog of William Durand (Doctrine Lead Dev) • Blog of Johannes Schmitt Find other links in the Meetup forum
23. Questions ??