Why does the Symfony 2 firewall take so long to load?

During the development of my current project, I noticed in the profiler that the Firewall took about 1 second to load, which was more than 50% of the total load time.

How to call shell programs as functions with PHP

I’m a big fan of Symfony’s Process Component. I’ve used intensively this component within a project and I noticed that I needed a wrapper to avoid to write again and again the same code.

Select2

Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results. Look and feel of Select2 is based on the excellent Chosen library.

Symfony2 SonataAdminBundle installation

http://dev.dbl-a.com/symfony/symfony2-sonataadminbundle-installation/

Symfony2 and Uploadify Sessions

http://dev.dbl-a.com/php/symfony2-and-uploadify-sessions/

Symfony2 and Twig Pagination

http://dev.dbl-a.com/symfony-2-0/symfony2-and-twig-pagination/

Symfony2 Doctrine force entity ID on persist

http://dev.dbl-a.com/symfony-2-0/symfony2-doctrine-force-entity-id-on-persist/

Symfony2 LiipImagineBundle

http://dev.dbl-a.com/symfony-2-0/symfony2-liipimaginebundle/

Symfony2 – Force Login a User

http://dev.dbl-a.com/php/symfony2-force-login-a-user/

Doctrine2 – Working with slugs (Slug Type)

http://dev.dbl-a.com/php/doctrine2-working-with-slugs-slug-type/