Chris Risner: Mobile Geolocation Apps with Windows Azure Websites Part 1: The...
Chris Risner has posted the first part of his series looking at mobile geolocation in PHP-based Azure applications as hosted on the Windows Azure service. The first article in this mini-series on...
View ArticleDave Marshall: Silex Controllers as Services
Dave Marshall has written up a post about how he uses Silex controllers as services that allow him to define his controller methods in separate classes with a custom resolver. There's currently a pull...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso: Building a Silex application from one Behat/Gherkin feature file
Gonzalo Ayuso has an interesting post showing how you can use a Gherkin file (used in tools like Behat) to generate a Silex-based application. Last days I've playing with Behat. Behat is a behavior...
View ArticleIgor Wiedler: Scaling a Silex code base
Igor Wiedler has a new post to his site today talking about scaling Silex-based applications (a microframework based on Symfony components) and using it for more than just the basic applications. One...
View ArticleDave Marshall: Silex Route Helpers for a Cleaner Architecture
In a previous post of his Dave Marshall talked about using controllers as "services" in a Silex-based application. In this new post he takes it a step further and shows you how to use route helpers to...
View ArticleVolker Dusch: A silex love story - 'Embedded' PHP
In this new post to his site Volker Dusch talks about some of his first experiences with the Silex microframework (from the folks behind Symfony) and the evolution his code went through in its first...
View ArticleStan Lemon: Aura.Micro - Experimental Replacement for Silex
With all of the recent talk about the Aura framework that's been happening lately, Stan Lemon thought it would be interesting to see how a microframework based on the Aura packages would be to create....
View ArticleJames Morris: A WebSockets, Ratchet, Silex and Redis PubSub Implementation
James Morris has an interesting new post to his site about the creation of a real-time web service that could be used for iOS applications via Websockets. He chose Ratchet for the handling (a...
View ArticleFabien Potencier: Debugging Silex applications just got fun
On his site Fabien Potencier has posted about a feature added to Silex to help make debugging the flow of your application "more fun" - the Symfony web profiler. One of the big advantages of both...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso: Scaling Silex applications
Gonzalo Ayuso has posted yet another helpful Silex hint for those using this microframework and wanting to scale up their applications past the prototype stage - an extension to allow route definition...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso: Scaling Silex applications (part II). Using RouteCollection
Gonzalo Ayuso has posted a second part of his look at scaling Silex (here's part one). In this new article he shows how to use the RouteCollection functionality instead of defining the routes in the...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso: Google App Engine, PHP and Silex. Setting up a Login Provider
Gonzalo Ayuso has a new post to his site today showing how to use the recently released PHP support for the Google App Engine along with Silex to create a login provider. Last week Google announced...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso: Working with AngularJS and Silex as Resource provider
Gonzalo Ayuso has a new post to his site looking at the use of Silex and AngularJS together to make Resources that AngularJS can pull data from. This days I'm playing with AngularJS. Angular is a...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso: Working with jQuery and Silex as RestFull Resource provider
In a previous post Gonzalo Ayuso showed how to use Silex as a data provider to an AngularJS application REST-fully. In this new post he does the same thing but with jQuery this time. The previous post...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso: Dynamic routes with AngularJS and Silex
Gonzalo Ayuso has a new post today showing how to set up dynamic routing for a Silex-based application using an AngularJS frontend. These days I'm playing with AngularJS. Today I want to experiment...
View ArticleCal Evans: Managing the Verbosity of symfony's Command Object With a Trait
In this new post to his site Cal Evans goes through a simple application he's created using the Symfony Command component and some of his gotchas along the way. He shows how, using a trait, he was...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso: Bundles in Silex using Stack
Gonzalo Ayuso has a recent post to his site showing you how to use Stack to create bundles for your Silex-based applications. Stack is a structure that allows for the reuse of HttpKernelInterface...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso: Creating QR codes with PHP and Silex
Gonzalo Ayuso has posted a tutorial showing you how to use Silex and the endroid/qrcode library to make a simple QR code generation site. Today we're going to play with QR codes and how to use them...
View ArticleIgor Wiedler: How heavy is Silex?
Igor Wiedler has shared some of his thoughts on his site today about the "heaviness" of things that call themselves "microframeworks" and why it may not be about the amount of code involved at all....
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