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Which plugins are out there?

SymfonyCamp08 september 2007

Stefan Koopmanschap, Dutch Open Projects

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Which plugins are out there?

sfAmazonECS, sfAuthorizeNet, sfBBCodeParser, sfBB, sfBB_PayloadFilterChain, sfCollapsibleContent, sfCommissionJunction, sfConst, sfContentGetter, sfControlPanel, sfCrypt, sfCSRF, sfDataGrid, sfDimensions, sfDoctrineAmazonS3, sfDoctrineComments, sfDoctrineFriends, sfDoctrineNestedSetManager, sfDoctrine, sfDojo, sfErrorLogger, sfEventCalendar, sfEzpdo, sfFeed2, sfFlickr, sfFlickrGallery, sfFormBuilder, sfFormValidation, sfFPDF, sfGeshi, sfGravatarHelper,sfGuard, sfHelperExample, sfI18nExtract, sfISBN, sfJpGraph,sfLightbox, sfMarkdown, sfMediaLibrary, sfMinify, sfNifty, sfOpenID, sfOpenOffice, sfOptimizer, sfPackageManager, sfPageController, sfPagerNavigation, sfPayloadFilterChain, sfPayloadFilterChain_TextTransformation, sfPJS, sfManager, sfPokaYoke, sfPrinterFriendly, sfPropelActAsNestedSetBehavior, sfActAsSortableBehavior, sfActAsTaggableBehavior, sfPropelAudit, sfPropelFileStorage, sfPropelFloodControlBehavior, sfPropelLoadbalancer, sfPropelNotification, sfPropelOptimisticLockBehavior, sfPropelParanoidBehavior, sfPropelSpamTagBehavior, sfPropelUuidBehavior, sfPropelVersionableBehavior, sfPrototype, sfPrototypeTooltip, sfPrototypeWindow, sfQuickbooksExportInvoice, sfRequestHistory, sfSenseiAcl, sfSensei, sfShoppingCart, sfShortcuts, sfSimpleBlog, sfSimpleCMS, sfSimpleForum, sfSite, sfSmartyView, sfSslRequirement, sfSugarCRM, sfSuperCache, sfSwfChart, sfSwfObjectHelper, sfSwift, sfTabbedContent, sfTCPDF, sfThreeColumnLayoutHelper, sfThumbnail, sfUFO, sfUJS, sfWebBrowser, sfWSDL, sdYouTube, sfYUI, sfYzClientSideValidation, sfZend,

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OK, seriously...

Quite a few plugins out there (111 on september 5th)!

Various states: Alpha, Beta, Stable

Community driven

Easy to write: you'll see in 45 minutes

Let's take a look at some important ones

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sfCSRF

Protection against Cross Site Request Forgery

Focus on security

Backport from a native symfony 1.1 feature

Just enable it in filters.yml and: GO!

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sfDoctrine

Complete replacement of Propel by Doctrine

Access your database using Doctrine, a PDO-based database abstraction layer

Check the Internet: There's lots of discussion on which is best

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sfFeed2

Easily create RSS and Atom feeds

Also: Parse RSS and Atom feeds

Option to aggregate into a single list of posts

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sfFlickrGallery

Easily create a gallery on your site with pictures posted on Flickr

Uses sync'ing option to avoid spamming the Flickr API

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sfGravatarHelper

Gravatars rule

One central place to manage your avatar

Helper that makes it soooo easy to implement gravatars on your site

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sfJpGraph

JpGraph: create all kinds of cool graphs

Managers love that!

sfJpgraph allows for easy calling of Jpgraph in symfony

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sfOpenID

Distributed Single Sign On

SSO without the need for a dependency to a central service

sfOpenID just supports “consumer” OpenID, no server (yet?)

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sfOpenOffice

Report generation using OpenOffice

Choice of output, such as PDF, Word, Excel

Uses templates for consistent layout of documents

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sfPokaYoke

Client side field validation

Still uses validate/*.yml for validation

Only basic validation, no extended validation

Javascript-based

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sfShoppingCart

The name says it all

Easy to integrate e-commerce with your website

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sfSugarCRM

Easy access to the SugarCRM SOAP interface

Not necessary to have leads/registrations go through Sugar anymore

One of the most important integrations for businesses, probably

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sfSimple*

Various plugins for basic website functionality

Weblog, cms, forum

Might enhance symfony's competitive power against the traditional cms'es

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sfWSDL

Easily create SOAP WSDL functionality

Perfect when creating web services/SOA applications

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sfYUI

To make Dustin happy ;)

Easy access to YUI javascript libraries

To make all frontend developers happy :)

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And so many more...

www.symfony-forge.com

trac.symfony-project.com/trac/wiki/SymfonyPlugins

www.symfony-project.com/book/1_0/17-Extending-Symfony#How%20to%20Write%20a%20Plug-In

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