Symfony Made Simple
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007This is an abridged guide that I created while working on my first Symfony based project, ThemBid.com.
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This is an abridged guide that I created while working on my first Symfony based project, ThemBid.com.
Dynamic CSS Tabs in Symfony
Monday, July 9th, 2007We are introducing a tabbed menu interface for ThemBid.com and following are the requirements and the step by step instructions used to make it happen. Although I hacked this in Symfony, it is easy to use any PHP framework.
How To Run PHP 4 and 5 in Ubuntu Without CGI
Thursday, June 21st, 2007When we chose Symfony to implement ThemBid.com, PHP 5 was needed but we only had PHP 4 installed in our Ubuntu hosting servers. We couldn't just migrate everyone to PHP 5 since some of client's applications were incompatible with PHP 5. Some tutorials were found online explaining how ...
New Symfony sfPaypalDirectPlugin Contribution
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007After having the joy of writing ThemBid.com using Symfony we decided it was time to make a contribution. We have released a new version of a plugin to support Paypal's Website Payment Pro. I developed it with flexibility in mind so if you take the class file in the tar ...
Using GTD, Trac and Subversion to Manage a Web 2.0 Launch
Friday, April 6th, 2007GTD principles have driven the underlying framework in the rapid development of ThemBid.com. In particular we have focused on the "Next Action" principle. Every time a task is complete, we immediately define the next action. We use Trac to organize our tasks, collaborate using our Wiki (where we store UML diagrams ...
Build Scalable Web 2.0 Sites with Ubuntu, Symfony, and Lighttpd
Thursday, April 5th, 2007One of the main concerns while developing ThemBid.com was to have a website that would be easy to use but that could scale as the project grew. Fortunately, I've been writing web applications for a long time and along the way I've been exposed to issues ranging from modifying ...
Symfony is Music to Our Ears
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007ThemBid.com is developed using the Symfony framework, which we whole heartedly recommend for any substantial web application. In the coming weeks we will be launching a Symfony community page where we will share many snippets and words of wisdom on Symfony based programming as a means of giving back to the ...
Improvements and Bug Fixes
Friday, March 30th, 2007I can't stress enough how much we appreciate the feedback. As as result we were able to fix and change the following: Read More button was changed to Details... since there may be no more text to read but the user still needs to click on a link to see ...
Yes, More Upcoming Features!
Monday, March 26th, 2007We have come a long way and Thembid is almost done. We think it will benefit both the businesses and consumers. Consumers don't have to spend time searching for the best business, they can just post a request and then, magic, businesses start bidding. The user can ...