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Popular Symfony components used by CMSes

Bolt CMS, eZ Platform and Drupal 8 are just a few content management tools using Symfony Components for a number of core functionalities. This is well known, but often a deeper insight into exact what pieces these vario…


Drupal 8 to accelerate Symfony adoption

The Drupal project announced way back in 2012 that they are adopting Symfony Components. At that stage the Symfony2 project was less than a year old. Today Symfony stands as one of the initiators of the contemporary PHP…


Magento 2 launches under new ownership

Magento is a popular Open Source eCommerce system written with PHP. The system originates to 2007 and as early as 2010 an announcement was made about a significant upgrade project. Now the project is finally at final st…


Flarum, a modern PHP forum platform

Forum software is a cornerstone of communications on the web. There are numerous of open forums around and also a lot more that are hidden form plain sight. Many of these are powered by PHP and are facing the same chall…


What is HTTP/2 and how to deploy it?

For people working with web sites and web applications, there is never a lack of new things to learn. HTTP/2 is one of these things. It will be in a very significant role in both the lives of developers and users of all…


The face of Symfony: User Interfaces

Symfony is a collection of software components. It's also a framework to tying these components together to provide a base for all kinds of applications. As a backend framework the Symfony Standard Edition does not come…