Okay, I think I’ve got the repository nonsense worked out.
Feel free to checkout or browse the code at:
https://svn.xp-dev.com/svn/tpdFauxWPPlugin/trunk/ (more…)
March 5, 2010
Faux-WordPress Plugin Note II
February 6, 2010
Producing a Faux-WordPress Plugin for Symfony, Part III
To build this plugin I’m going to start with a new project, entirely from scratch. This means that I will be initially developing a normal application. Once we’re nearing the end, we’ll package the project up into a plugin. This post will cover the development of basic CRUD functionality so we can actually do something if we want. (more…)
February 1, 2010
Producing a Faux-WordPress Plugin for Symfony, Part II
WordPress is, by far, the most popular blogging framework on the Internet today and that popularity is not undeserved. It has an easy installation and is set up to cater to non-technical people. After installation, it simply works and people are up and running quickly. It has an active plugin community to extend it in any direction a user might need. In short, it’s a great solution to use pretty much anywhere.
However, it’s also not very nice to play with as a developer. The code is mostly based around PHP 4 (although that will probably change when 3.0 is released) and writing plugins and themes can occasionally be a nightmare. Security is, unfortunately, a constant problem since the ease-of-use is occasionally in tension with secure practices. Finally, while the self-contained aspect of WordPress is great for a typical user who pretty much runs their entire site through WordPress, integrating a WordPress installation with an existing applicaiton — especially an application that has its own extensive user-management solution — is a daunting task. (more…)
January 30, 2010
Producing a Faux-WordPress Plugin for Symfony, Part I
So, for the past year or so I have struggled in trying to figure out how best to incorporate WordPress into a Symfony application. The conclusion I have come to? I’m really starting to wonder if it’s worth any of the trouble. So, I’m trying to figure out, for myself at least, what aspects of WordPress I really appreciate; of those features, I really wonder whether or not building a new plugin (or extending sfSimpleBlogPlugin/sfBlogsPlugin) would not be a better idea. (more…)
January 4, 2010
How I Use Netbeans 6.8 and Symfony 1.2
I am expirementing with using a full-fledged IDE for web development at work. Until recently I used gEdit; most people don’t know that gEdit can be extended via plugins to become a fantastic development environment. However, one thing I could never get to work was auto-completion based upon functions and classes in PHP. However, the speed of using gEdit, as opposed to Eclipse, was amazing and I never could quite get the hang of editors like Aptana and Eclipse. Recently, I found that Sun’s Java-based IDE, NetBeans, had added symfony support and I wondered how useful that might be. I tried it and loved it. Using NetBeans is not without issues, however. It’s still a bit buggy (that might be because I’m using the development code) and memory usage is about what you’d expect from a Java-based editor (ie, sometimes really, really high). Still, it’s worked out quite well and I’d recommend giving it a try. (more…)
June 2, 2009
Symfony sfConfig Variables
I keep trying to figure out how to reference the sfConfig variables. I also often forget what variables are available to me through the symfony framework. So, for my own benefit and anyone else’s who might be looking for that as well, here it is: as many of the sfConfig variables as I could find. (more…)