Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "J.O. Aho" Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:26:19 +0200 Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net sf/rxe/ogO3G4/9234b1Tw6iz+OkeNnmnqqu8qYV3yyveOyT8G Cancel-Lock: sha1:iMXvMtODZGzmD/ezA9a6D0IRCmU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120923 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:7227 On 02/10/12 18:50, Daniel Pitts wrote: > On 10/2/12 9:08 AM, M. Strobel wrote: >> Am 02.10.2012 17:40, schrieb Daniel Pitts: >>> Hello everyone, >>> I know some "programming language" newsgroups have different opinions >>> on whether >>> frameworks are on topic. I'm learning Symfony2, and re-learning PHP >>> (after 5 years >>> hiatus). If it is on-topic here, I may be asking questions from >>> time-to-time. If it >>> isn't, then I'll find some other venue for the symfony specific >>> questions ;-) >> >> The general policy is "PHP only". I have never seen a discussion on >> symfony subjects >> here. > Okay, that's good to know. I'm sure I'll have some PHP questions at > some point. > >> I would even expect people here telling you "work up to a decent >> knowledge in PHP first". > Unfortunately that isn't exactly an option. I've been working at a Java > shop for 7 years, and suddenly we've been told we're going to become PHP > only. And that we're going to be using Symfony. If I can't ramp up fast > on both, I may not be able to keep my job :-/ Did myself start briefly look at Symfony2, as my development machine isn't my local host I got a bit issues with it, as debug stuff seems to be meant to run on local host only. As I have loads of other things to do and I don't need Symfony for any work related stuff, so I let it just wait. There are some tutorials on their homepage which are worth taking a look at. > Although, on that topic, what is a good tutorial to get a basic overview > familiarity with PHP language features and libraries? For me it's mainly been php.net which has been the main source of information, valokuva.org a bit too for imagemagick. > Luckily, I'm a good enough programmer with several languages under my > belt. Moving to a somewhat foreign language shouldn't be *too* > difficult. A good IDE and Google will help for most of my immediate > problems. I could recommend KDevelop, there will of course be those who favour something else, but I think it's worth to test. -- //Aho