Premier Medical Care's new website, he also happens to be my physician. http://premiermedicalcarepb.com.

tags: symphony

Below this is all tech-talk. To summarize, I used new stuff to make the site better, make it quicker, and more responsive. This is what I made.

In every project I do, I like to learn something new. This time, I just happened to learn quite a few new things, SASS, XSLT, and additional knowledge about PHP to name a few. Not that PHP is still anything amazing, but it can’t hurt to renew some knowledge of it.

The new keep flippin website is built using compass for the CSS (this is amazing), symphony, some extensions I created and GitHub to keep track of everything.

tags: symphony

Symphony doesn't natively supported pessimistic database locking, so I created an extension in symphony to handle it, both in the backend and the frontend. It's somewhat complicated to implement, but so far it works pretty great. I created it because one of the next big projects I'm working on will be used by many people at once, and I was considering using symphony to create it, as opposed to Rails.

You can get it here.

Report any issues at GitHub.

tags: symphony

Many CMS’ don’t offer a way to manage picture galleries easily, and neither does symphony out of the box. But, after playing with symphony some, I decided that I liked it and the next project I would do would be with symphony.

So I created a plugin (in symphony: extension) that allows you to upload multiple files, and create entries (in this example, gallery items, or rows in the database, etc) to allow you to accomplish this easily.

You can download it at Github.

tags: symphony

I've been working on moving this to this. It's got a bit of a learning curve, but I would say it's like Rails for designers with a GUI. That's not a bad thing. The bad thing is that it uses XSLT 1.0. Which is the least powerful language ever written (spec was written 8 years ago). It's not a procedural language, and if you don't treat it as one, you'll be ok. Some posts about tutorials will follow.

tags: symphony