This document discusses various Symfony plugins that are available. It provides examples of some commonly used plugins such as sfCSRFProtection, sfDoctrine, sfFeed2, sfFlickrGallery, sfGravatarHelper, sfJpGraph, sfOpenID, sfOpenOffice, sfPokaYoke, sfShoppingCart, sfSugarCRM, and sfSimple plugins. The document encourages developers to write their own plugins and lists resources for finding more plugins.

1. Which plugins are out there?
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2. sfEzpdo, sfFeed2, sfFlickr, sfFlickrGallery,
sfFormBuilder, sfFormValidation, sfFPDF,
sfGeshi, sfGravatarHelper,sfGuard,
sfHelperExample, sfI18nExtract, sfISBN,
sfJpGraph,sfLightbox, sfMarkdown,
Which plugins are out there?
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,
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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. sfJpGraph
JpGraph: create all kinds of cool graphs
Managers love that!
sfJpgraph allows for easy calling of Jpgraph in symfony
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10. 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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11. sfOpenOffice
Report generation using OpenOffice
Choice of output, such as PDF, Word, Excel
Uses templates for consistent layout of documents
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12. sfPokaYoke
Client side field validation
Still uses validate/*.yml for validation
Only basic validation, no extended validation
Javascript-based
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13. sfShoppingCart
The name says it all
Easy to integrate e-commerce with your website
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14. 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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15. 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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16. sfWSDL
Easily create SOAP WSDL functionality
Perfect when creating web services/SOA applications
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17. sfYUI
To make Dustin happy ;)
Easy access to YUI javascript libraries
To make all frontend developers happy :)
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18. 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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19. The End
Questions?
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