Rafie Younes introduces Silex, the microframework from Sensiolabs, the makers of Symfony. What is it good for? Is it better than Symfony? Find out!

My own Silex bootstrap files

When I created my first Silex project, I almost felt encouraged to let go of my high standards in programming. So things were starting to look very much like my “legacy” PHP projects, in which everything was put in functions with lengthy parameter lists and those functions were called from within a single index.php file. I ignored many of the things about high quality software development I had learned in previous years. The result of this, was a project much less maintainable than my other recent projects.

(On why Silex is the best way to get started with serious PHP) A small group of students wants to learn PHP and use it to develop a small portal for a university project. It should show best practi…

Recorded at PHP Quebec in Montreal on July 11, 2013.