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Random things on PHP, Symfony and web development
eZ Platform is a Content Management System built with the Symfony Full Stack framework. While this may be clear to developers who have worked with it; it maybe somewhat vague for the unitiated. Especially when compared with Concrete5 or Drupal, which have adopted Symfony components into their core.
Menus are a vital part of any web application or a website. Content Management Systems are traditionally a strong contender in this field as they are at their core just tools to create navigatable views to a pool of content. The Symfony Framework on the other hand is neutral when it comes to menus.
On December 15th 2015 eZ Systems released their new generation of content management products. Building on a foundation from 1999 the new product suite sheds all legacy code and is built on the Symfony Full Stack Framework.
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 with a default UI, but there are a number of options to create these.
November of 2015 is shaping up to be an exciting month for developers working with the PHP language. Four significant projects are expected to be launched in the next thirty days: PHP 7.0.0, Symfony3, eZ Platform and Drupal 8.
In the previous article I wrote about the refactoring effort done on the TYPO3 CMS. During the discussion I found this related video discussing two different approaches of refactoring a CMS tool. The video is from 2013 and offers great perspective on the situation today.