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2 December 2009

More with symfony: a whole chapter devoted to the sfFacebookConnect Plugin

December just started, and with it its usual christmas spirit, Santa Claus, happy children and…. the symfony advent calendar!

This year the symfony advent calendar is a collection of articles written by different symfony experts:

http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2009/12/01/one-more-thing

and is already available as a book on Amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/2918390178

I had the chance to contribute and write an article on developing for Facebook with symfony. This was the perfect occasion to finally sit down and write 15 pages on the experience I gathered on this specific subject. I had already collected it in the sfFacebookConnect plugin but it was lacking documentation. Well here it is finally! At least on Amazon and in a few days as part of the new symfony advent calendar.

Enjoy and do not hesitate to make a critical feedback, the article will be included with the plugin and can still evolve a lot!

Filed under : sfFacebookConnectPlugin, symfony — Fabrice Bernhard @ 10 h 42 min

24 August 2009

A Facebook Connect plugin for symfony

As promised during the last symfony live conference, I finally release my current work on a Facebook Connect Plugin for symfony. It is inspired by the good sfFacebookPlugin by Jonathan Todd, which has however been unmaintained for quite some time. Since Facebook’s platform is evolving every week and my focus was not on the Facebook platform but on the Facebook Connect functionality, I decided to create this new plugin.

It is for the moment VERY beta. It is used in two projects, http://www.allomatch.com which is a symfony 1.0/propel project and another project on symfony 1.2/doctrine. It is therefore compatible with both Doctrine and Propel. However some issues remain concerning 1.0 and 1.2 versions regarding some options, the tasks for example.

For the installation, the README is a good start but FAR from complete. I invite you to browse through the code to understand the logic and comment on this post if you have any question regarding installation. This will force me to improve the README.

I intend to improve the documentation in the very near future, so if you are not in a hurry, please wait. However I have already received dozens of mails concerning the current status, so I release it for those who need to start a project using Facebook Connect right now.

Here is the link to the plugin:

http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfFacebookConnectPlugin

And here the presentation made at the sflive conference:

http://www.symfony-live.com/pdf/sflive09fr/theodo-symfony-facebook.pdf

Filed under : sfFacebookConnectPlugin, symfony — Fabrice Bernhard @ 12 h 02 min