Juozas “Joe” Kaziukėnas recently wrote a post on his blog that discusses the current and future state of the PHP framework landscape. This one is going to take a little explaining, have a seat and I’ll get the flip chart.

Lukas Kahwe Smith – noted member of the symfony community and all-around swell guy – wrote a post for his blog recently that discusses how the symfony community is building tools not only for themselves, but for everyone. Click on through, as soon as I finish my coffee, I’ll dig up the link.

On one of the more…um…interestingly titled blogs, Christian Schaefer has posted about how he integrates Zend Framework components into his symfony2 projects. Click on in, I’ll give you a link to the totally safe for work but humorously titled blog where you can read the post for yourself.

Unit testing is becoming a fairly common element of software projects because of its promise of providing better quality to the code base. A unit test is a class or method that exercises your code for purposes of verifying that it functions correctly. During the course of your project, these tests remain as artifacts that can be used over and over again to verify that your code is always working correctly. The higher percentage of your production code you exercise, the higher degree of certainty you can have that your code is doing what it was designed to do.

Dependency injection is a technique that allows for loosely coupled objects within a software application. Generally if an object requires access to the functionality of another it would be instantiated internally leading to tightly coupled systems. By implementing dependency injection we inject the required objects ready for use (sometimes also referred to inversion of control – IOC).

As tweeted by Fabien Potencier, symfony2 now has a “translations” page on their site. If you read and write English and another language, they want you!

In a new post to my blog, I discuss about integrating Symfony Dependency Injection Service Container with Zend Framework. Dependency Injection is an Inversion of Control specific pattern highly used and encouraged throughout Zend Framework implementation. A Dependency Injection container manages your services life-cycle, it is in charge of their instantiation, configuration and injection as shared instances: no more need to use static methods, singletons or factories for your services!

On the Symfony blog today Fabien Potencier answers the question “will Symfony 2.0 finally use PHP 5.3?”

On the symfony blog Fabien Potencier has posted about the new “getting started” tutorial that’s been posted for the symfony 1.2 release of the framework.

Just four months after the 1.1 release, the symfony team is proud to announce the immediate availability of symfony 1.2.
As always, it comes with a lot of exciting new features like full Doctrine support, or a new admin generator that
takes full advantages of the form framework introduced in symfony 1.1.