Is Symfony using some sort of magic to validate inputs? — This article is the second part of the blog serie Symfony Internals, which dissects the internal workings of the framework and its components. Whether it’s to contribute to Symfony development or for your personal knowledge, you’ll find here a vulgarization of the solutions implemented within the internal classes of Symfony. …

How does Symfony processes configuration you’re passing it? — This article is the first one of the blog serie Symfony Internals, which dissects the internal workings of the framework and its components. Whether it’s to contribute to Symfony development or for your personal knowledge, you’ll find here a vulgarization of the solutions implemented within the internal classes to meet…

Let’s go over the obscure terms and concepts of this critical component — Can I have 5 minutes of your time? That’s all I need to help you step up about Symfony 6 Security component. It’s sometimes hard to understand everything in here. Well, you don’t have to understand everything of course. But having the knowledge of the different parts and terms used…

Foundation, Kernel & Client is the perfect trio to deal with the famous protocol — So I’ve been talking a lot about different components Symfony offers. In case you’re not familiar with the component term in the Symfony ecosystem, you just have to know that components are standalone libraries you can install in your project, without having your project to be entirely written with Symfony…

End-to-end tests are going savagely easy — Testing an application isn’t the easiest thing on earth, it is not the quickest thing either and it may not be the most exciting part of an application development. But that’s just a necessary thing. You can’t take the risk of making your application crash and loose users — and…

You may say it’s to encrypt data. Yes. But no. Let’s clarify. — Did you ever try to encrypt data with vanilla PHP? Well, I did (try), and I definitely don’t want to do it again. Let me explain. One of the most famous library to do encryption with PHP is called OpenSSL. It does the job right, and it has been tried…

Brace yourself: autocompletion on options and arguments is finally here! — One the most useful thing ever when using a command line interface is autocompletion. You know about it. If you don’t, well I hope your new to command line interfaces, otherwise you’re missing a whole world. Anyway, just to be super quick and that everybody understands this, autocompletion gives you…

Symfony 5.4/6.0 is supporting them since day one — I’ve been involved in the addition of enumerations support in the Symfony framework. Why? Because I’m mad at love with this new feature. I waited them for years in PHP. And I also love to contribute to the framework, so why not blend these two pleasures? A news has been…

When you should use them in your projects, even if you’re not creating a complete Symfony project — Symfony components are pieces of the framework that you can install individually, and especially independently of the framework. Your project doesn’t need to be written in Symfony to use these components. They offer a lot of solutions that could meet your daily needs. Let’s have a look at these components…

Take control over shared resources across PHP processes with this simple, yet powerful tool — Asynchronous tasks in PHP You certainly know it and I don’t teach you anything by telling you this: pure multithreading and parallelism do not exist with PHP. …

Learn how works Symfony’s vault for your production sensitive information while your coffee is cooling down — A bit of context Keeping sensitive information in secured places has always been a bit tricky. Where do you store your production database password? Where do you store all the required credentials for your application to work? During my everyday job, I often have to set-up CIs (continuous integrations) and CDs (continuous delivery) with…