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Random things on PHP, Symfony and web development
Content Management may appear simple to a layman, but when you end up working with multiple sites, multilingual, versioning, media assets and real user needs... it is not trivial. Symfony has been adopted by many popular CMSes. That's great news for all LAMP CMS devs!
It goes unsaid that the internet evolves at a rapid pace. Software is very flexible and on the web you can keep on upgrading continuously. It is, however, not immune to history and decisions made in the past. Many traditional Content Management Systems still focus on big releases, just like traditional desktop software has for decades.
In autumn of 2014 two popular PHP Content Management tools hoped for more participation from the community. Drupal lead Dries Buytaert was describing Drupal as a Public Good in his essay Scaling Open Source Communities. Meanwhile Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame was calling for people to spend 5% of their efforts on the WordPress Core in a post titled Five for the Future.
RESTful APIs are on the lips of everyone currently. Everyone is got one or will have one very soon. They are always underlined as being full REST APIs. But if you're not fully utilising your API internally, is it really complete and a priority for you?
Search Engines are a very significant factor in many businesses today. Many companies will fail or succeed depending on their ranking on Bing, DuckDuckGo or Google. This has understandably created a whole industry of Search Engine Optimisation around it. Money talks.
But it's worth noting that SEO, like programming, isn't a tangible good that you can own - it's free as in experience. You can get far in SEO with common sense and understanding that the nature of hypertext.
Your content needs to be good, trusted and accessible.
You can transfer content automatically from WordPress to Drupal to eZ Publish (nowadays eZ Platform). To help you get started with your automatic content migrations from WordPress to eZ Platform or Drupal, you'll want to hire skilled partners to do this for you.