Oracle Symfony in PHP Minor
Mladen Gogala wrote:
Symfony is a very popular model-view-controller (MVC) framework for creating Web applications quickly and efficiently. Like many such tools, it uses an object-relational mapper (ORM) called Propel. In my work as a DBA, I was recently asked to modify an application that was written using the Symfony framework and whose author has since left the company. At the time, I was the only resource in the company who knew both PHP and Oracle, so I was the natural choice, despite being a DBA.
To make a long story short, learning Symfony wasn’t a problem, and the framework delighted me with its simplicity, versatility, and ease of use. Where should someone who wants to learn Symfony begin? Project Symfony has a very informative and well-kept Web site, with extensive documentation. As it turns out, there is a book about Symfony and there are also numerous tutorials, unfortunately all of them created using a MySQL database. That is, in essence, why I decided to write this article about Symfony and Oracle. It’s not a full-blown tutorial, but I hope it will be helpful to those who want to use Symfony with Oracle.
