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That’s right, the title says it all: we’re having another BugHuntDay. After the success of the previous one, we (PHPBenelux) decided to host another one. Last time around it was all about Zend Framework. This time we feel that we should dedicate some attention to the Symfony framework.

To be perfectly honest, we were discussing it for a while, but we didn’t reach the planning stage. That was until the kind people at Intracto decided to take the lead. I knew they were pretty fond of Symfony, but now they decided it was time to give back to the community by sponsoring and hosting the event.

The event takes place Saturday November 14th at Frame21 in Herentals. More details can be found on the PHPBenelux website. You can still register for this event and we kindly invite you to do so by filling up the following form.

This blog post will assist you in preparing for the actual event. You shouldn’t be a rocket scientist to participate. A good knowledge of PHP and an open mind will get you a long way.
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Last week I was optimizing the caching strategy for one of my projects and I was under the false impression that caching was accelerating my website.

At that time I was using Zend_Cache_Backend_File as my backend and cache files were created. My goal was to boost the performance by implementing the Zend_Cache_Backend_Memcached backend. Again everything seemed to be working fine because my Memcached logging displayed activity of some sort.

I was stunned to hear that in fact all of those cache files where created, but never read. So here I am optimizing everything, but in reality I was creating extra overhead. So I started my quest and found the solution (sorry for the spoiler).
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That’s right folks, in this blog post I’ll show you how you can convert your entire MVC application into a REST-style XML webservice. And I’m not talking about refactoring tons of code … NO, we’ll plug this option in without changing a single thing to your action controllers.

This post will contain a detailed description of the concepts used. The source could of the plugin is also shown and finally how it will look like when using it.
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For some time now there have been lots of discussions regarding the use of frameworks. Some say it causes too much overhead, is a deal breaker from a performance point of view and forces you to adapt your project to the standards of the framework. Others defend the DRY (Do Not Repeat Yourself) principles and the fact that the source code of influential frameworks is kept up to date by professionals.
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