SensioLabs Stories
SensioLabs Stories is a blog offering expert tips, tutorials, and best practices for developers. Focused on PHP, Symfony, and web development, it’s a key resource for staying updated on tech trends.
Learn how to apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles in Symfony with practical examples. Discover the power of value objects, repositories, and bounded contexts.
What about Symfony and Artificial Intelligence (AI)? This was the theme of the exclusive event organized by SensioLabs in partnership with Codéin on October 3rd. With the added bonus of feedback from a development project combining Symfony and AI. If you missed the event, check out the video now available for free on our Youtube channel.
2025 is going to be a big year for anniversaries. We will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of Symfony, the 30th anniversary of PHP, the 25th anniversary of AFUP and the 10th anniversary of API Platform. For SensioLabs, this is a major milestone that proves the longevity of the technologies in our ecosystem. We are proud to celebrate these anniversaries with the community all year long.
If you want to become a good PHP developer, you must learn to work with arrays. Arrays are used a lot in PHP: temporarily store, organize, and process data before it's saved in a database. Knowing how to work with them efficiently will help you manage and process data more effectively.
This article explores the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle and its impact on code quality. While emphasizing its importance in avoiding repetition and facilitating maintenance, it highlights the risks of excessive application of this principle, which can be detrimental to clarity and project evolution. The aim is to strike the right balance between reuse and simplicity.
Learn how to enhance type safety in Symfony and Doctrine by using dedicated ID classes like BookId and UserId instead of raw UUIDs. This approach prevents identifier mix-ups, improves code clarity, and ensures better integration with Symfony Messenger and repository methods. Explore practical examples and best practices for implementing type-safe identifiers in your Symfony applications.
Agility is more than just rituals and tools. In this first article of our Scrum series, we explore the Cargo Cult phenomenon and how blind imitation can hinder true Agile transformation.
SemVer ensures stability for libraries, while CalVer aligns projects with release cycles. Learn the key differences and best use cases to optimize your versioning strategy.
Discover PIE, the new PHP Installer for Extensions, a modern tool that simplifies managing PHP extensions with a Composer-like workflow. Say goodbye to PECL complexities and streamline your development process with PIE.
For the first time ever, SymfonyCon was held in the beautiful city of Vienna on December 5-6th. The much-anticipated flagship conference of the Symfony ecosystem, SymfonyCon Vienna 2024, brought together over a thousand eager framework enthusiasts in the Austrian capital. Let's take a moment to look back at the largest PHP conference of the year!
SensioLabs has embraced the power of Storyblok, a leading headless CMS, to unlock greater content flexibility and scalability. By integrating Storyblok into our workflows, we empower both developers and content creators to deliver seamless, dynamic experiences across multiple platforms.
In this post, we’ll explore the risks of neglecting to update your Composer dependencies and how it can lead to serious security vulnerabilities, compatibility issues, and missed opportunities for performance and feature improvements.
Explore Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and patterns like Ubiquitous Language, Aggregates, and Bounded Contexts. Learn how DDD fits seamlessly into PHP and Symfony projects, helping you align software with business needs.
Summer is going to be a blast with the Euro Cup and the Paris 2024 Olympics. While you’re enjoying the sports, why not challenge yourself with the latest versions of Symfony and PHP? Throughout the summer, SensioLabs is offering the tools you need to level up your performance and make your mark as a top Symfony developer. Ready, set, go!
Oskar Stark, a member of the Symfony Core team, has been appointed Managing Director of SensioLabs Germany. This new addition to the team will foster the growth of SensioLabs Germany, the official subsidiary of SensioLabs in Germany, to the benefit of German-speaking Symfony users.
On March 28th and 29th, the SensioLabs team and the French-speaking Symfony community gathered at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris for SymfonyLive Paris 2024. Were you not at this must-attend event? We’ll summarize it for you, but only because it’s you!
February was a busy month for SensioLabs regarding events related to Symfony. We attended Symfony meetups and conferences in France, Switzerland, England and finally Canada. We invite you to join us in this article for our review of February. Enjoy reading!
Symfony 7 has been released in November 2023. As the creator of Symfony, SensioLabs provides the official training courses on this new version of the framework. Discover our new Symfony 7 training programs in this article.
Last week, the SensioLabs & Symfony team was in Palma de Mallorca for a 2-day conference at the Ibexa Global Partner Conference. Read our review of the event in this article.
On the 7th and 8th of December we were in Brussels for the long-awaited SymfonyCon Brussels 2023. This year the fantastic international Symfony community gathered in the Belgian capital for another conference full of inspiring talks and two days of fun. Relive it with us!
Symfony 7 was released today, and as per tradition, SensioLabs interviewed Nicolas Grekas, one of the key contributors to the Symfony Core Team. Find out about the new latest features in Symfony 7 and what you should prepare for when upgrading to it.
SensioLabs and Inetum, the European leader in digital services and solutions, have announced the signing of a new partnership. This partnership will enable Inetum to offer its customers enhanced support for their PHP and Symfony developments throughout the lifecycle of their projects. Who is Inetum? Inetum is an agile ESN, a digital services and solutions […]
On October 12 and 13, SensioLabs was at the long awaited 2023 edition of the PHP Forum. The French PHP community conference brought over 600 people together for two days of exciting talks. This year, the AFUP repeated the event at the famous New York Hotel – The Art of Marvel at Disneyland Paris! We take a look back at this edition in this article.
Last week, SensioLabs hosted the very first Sylius event in Paris: Sylius Days Paris 2023. The first day was all about technical workshops with experts, and on the second day, Sylius organized a hackathon on contribution to the framework.
On June 22nd, SensioLabs welcomed the PHP Brussels Meetup group for an exceptional meetup featuring Nicolas Grekas and Juliette Reinders Folmer. This meetup was the opportunity to connect with the local community six months before SymfonyCon Brussels 2023.
The new minor version Symfony 6.3 came out at the end of May, adding new features before the release of Symfony 6.4 at the end of the year. Find out why SensioLabs decided to sponsor Symfony 6.3, as well as the main changes in this new version.
Last week, SensioLabs became a Gold Partner of Platform.sh, the all-in-one platform as a service (PaaS). Let us have a look at the partnership between SensioLabs and Platform.sh and why we are thrilled about this news.
When you join SensioLabs, the creator of Symfony, you enjoy many benefits to make your life easier and develop in the best conditions. In this interview, Léna Florence Ourahou and Anaïs Martin, Talent Acquisition Specialists, share with you the information you need to know before applying for a job at SensioLabs.
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