What plugins are out there?

08 september 2007 DUTCH OPEN PROJECTS 1www.dop.nu

Which plugins are out there?

SymfonyCamp08 september 2007

Stefan Koopmanschap, Dutch Open Projects


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,


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


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!


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


sfFeed2

Easily create RSS and Atom feeds

Also: Parse RSS and Atom feeds

Option to aggregate into a single list of posts


sfFlickrGallery

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

Uses sync'ing option to avoid spamming the Flickr API


sfGravatarHelper

Gravatars rule

One central place to manage your avatar

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


sfJpGraph

JpGraph: create all kinds of cool graphs

Managers love that!

sfJpgraph allows for easy calling of Jpgraph in symfony


sfOpenID

Distributed Single Sign On

SSO without the need for a dependency to a central service

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


sfOpenOffice

Report generation using OpenOffice

Choice of output, such as PDF, Word, Excel

Uses templates for consistent layout of documents


sfPokaYoke

Client side field validation

Still uses validate/*.yml for validation

Only basic validation, no extended validation

Javascript-based


sfShoppingCart

The name says it all

Easy to integrate e-commerce with your website


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


sfSimple*

Various plugins for basic website functionality

Weblog, cms, forum

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


sfWSDL

Easily create SOAP WSDL functionality

Perfect when creating web services/SOA applications


sfYUI

To make Dustin happy ;)

Easy access to YUI javascript libraries

To make all frontend developers happy :)


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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