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Random things on PHP, Symfony and web development
The Symfony Framework is promoted as a complete HMVC web application framework written in PHP. In practice most applications are built with MySQL using Doctrine or Propel ORM (Object Relational Mapper). It's easy to assume that this is something you're coupled with. But the Symfony Framework itself has no defined model.
A brief introduction to three contemporary topics in the PHP world:
The popularity of Symfony has made the debug toolbar a familiar sight for many developers. Ranging from Drupal to Bolt to eZ Publish, many different tools now share common debugging interfaces.
Symfony is a term related to software development with the PHP language. Symfony is a set of components and an HMVC (Hierarchical Model View Controller) framework to be used in PHP programming. It released under the MIT license as Open Source.
The Symfony Full Stack framework is a fully featured platform for you to create your custom applications on top of. If you have experience with it, the structure logical and straightforward.
But as always, nobody is born an expert. The Symfony Community offers good tools to getting started with it. Here is one approach that could get you on the right path.
WordPress is like the bumble bee. Computer Scientists that studied the core code have concluded it is a miracle it works at all. It's clearly a product that taught the original developers how to work with PHP and MySQL. And it shows.
Over the years, cheeky kludge functions and inside jokes have been left in place as Poetry™. The core team stubbornly refuses to keep up with the times and adopt modern PHP development standards.
Superb skills in WordPress are like a country only exporting bananas. It gets you nowhere in the long run. So do you self a favour and save yourself from WordPress!