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Silas Joisten New

Supercharging Symfony Testing with Zenstruck Foundry

Zenstruck Foundry has revolutionized the way we write tests in Symfony. In this post, you’ll learn how expressive factories, isolated test data, and a smoother developer experience helped us streamline our testing workflow and boost productivity.

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Imen Ezzine

Optimize Your PHP Code: 8 Functions You Need for Efficient Table Handling

If you want to become a good PHP developer, you must learn to work with arrays. Arrays are used a lot in PHP: temporarily store, organize, and process data before it's saved in a database. Knowing how to work with them efficiently will help you manage and process data more effectively.

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Imen Ezzine

The DRY principle: striking the delicate balance between code reuse and clarity

This article explores the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle and its impact on code quality. While emphasizing its importance in avoiding repetition and facilitating maintenance, it highlights the risks of excessive application of this principle, which can be detrimental to clarity and project evolution. The aim is to strike the right balance between reuse and simplicity.

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Oskar Stark

Type-Safe Identifiers with Symfony and Doctrine: Using Dedicated ID Classes

Learn how to enhance type safety in Symfony and Doctrine by using dedicated ID classes like BookId and UserId instead of raw UUIDs. This approach prevents identifier mix-ups, improves code clarity, and ensures better integration with Symfony Messenger and repository methods. Explore practical examples and best practices for implementing type-safe identifiers in your Symfony applications.

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Remi Brière

Agility and the Cargo Cult - Part 1

Agility is more than just rituals and tools. In this first article of our Scrum series, we explore the Cargo Cult phenomenon and how blind imitation can hinder true Agile transformation.

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Oskar Stark

Introducing PIE: The Modern PHP Extension Installer

Discover PIE, the new PHP Installer for Extensions, a modern tool that simplifies managing PHP extensions with a Composer-like workflow. Say goodbye to PECL complexities and streamline your development process with PIE.

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Elise Hamimi

Discover our new Symfony Success Stories: Gault & Millau and BSN Sports

Symfony has been increasingly popular among companies with new great web development success stories. SensioLabs, the creator of Symfony, has recently released inspirational business cases with Gault & Millau and BSN Sports. Learn more about the potential of Symfony for two businesses as different as a French gastronomic guide and a US custom sportswear manufacturer.

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Elise Hamimi

Learn how to migrate to the PHP framework Symfony

SensioLabs and Smile released a joint white paper “PHP framework migration: from legacy to Symfony” explaining how to migrate to modern PHP frameworks like Symfony. Find a selection of the key information in this infographic design by SensioLabs.

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Elise Hamimi

The SensioLabs Tech Blog is online on Medium

The technical team of SensioLabs, the creator of Symfony, is now on the Medium platform with the publication The SensioLabs Tech Blog. Our experts share with you articles and thoughts on many topics, not limited to PHP and Symfony. The first articles are already available in the publication.

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Jules Daunay

[White Paper] Migration from legacy to Symfony

As the creator of Symfony, SensioLabs has been advocating in favor of PHP for many years. To keep up with the breathless pace of innovation in PHP, you need to implement a modern, robust framework like Symfony. That is the story SensioLabs and Smile tell you in their new joint white paper.

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