The Sound of Symfony podcast, with hosts Magnus Nordlander and Tobias Nyholm, has released their latest episode today - Episode #15: Live from Barcelona.

In another of our conference specials, Tobias, Magnus and Ryan is live from Symfony Catalunya 2016 in Barcelona. We talk about the conference, and, trying make the most of being around some of the experts in the community, we talk to Marc Morera and Michael Cullum about building local PHP communities.

You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or by downloading the audio file directly. If you enjoy the show be sure to also follow them on Twitter and subscribe to their feed for more information on when the latest episodes are released.

In a new post to his site Marc Morera talks about a new Symfony conference happening in Barcelona, Spain in July of 2016 - Symfony Catalunya.

Imagine yourself in front of the Barcelona’s beach in July. It sounds good, right? Then, continue imagining yourself with a great Symfony environment, with a very cold beer, amazing people and even better topics to talk about.

Isn’t it the best plan ever? Well, if you feel that you need it, then you should continue reading this post…

I’m very very pleased to tell you that this plan is going to happen this summer. The Symfony Barcelona Association is working very hard on this first edition of Symfony Catalunya, an international Symfony event placed in our city. This event is 100% in english and is going to be very focused on how Symfony can help us in our day by day and in our jobs.

He talks some about the conference too including the emphasis on new talks, amazing speakers, ticket pricing and the emphasis on community. If you're interested in the conference, want to see some of the current lineup or just want to get tickets, visit the main conference site at Symfony.cat.

Gonzalo Ayuso has posted a wrapup and the slides from his SOLID presentation at this year's deSymfony conference recently held in Barcelona, Spain.

Last saturday I attended to the deSymfony conference in Barcelona. A great opportunity to meet again with the PHP and Symfony community in Spain. This year the conference accepted my talk about SOLID and Symfony. Here you can see the slides of the talk (slides in spanish). [...] The conference was perfect. Barcelona is an incredible city and the conference place (10 minutes walking from the Sagrada Familia), was incredible too. Great talks. But the best, as always, the coffe breaks with the conversations with the Symfony and PHP community from Valencia, Zaragoza, Madrid, Barcelona, ...

His talk (in Spanish) covers some of the basics around the SOLID design principles including definitions of each piece and brief code snippets to illustrate. If you're interested in a bit more detail around the SOLID principles in PHP, check out the first four parts of a series over on NetTuts.com for each principle: Single Responsibility, Open/Closed, Liskov Substitution & Interface Segregation and Dependency Inversion principles.

Just a quick reminder for all of the PHPers out there looking to attend the next great conference - the PHP Barcelona conference is only days away! (October 30th and 31st)

The PHP Barcelona Conference 2009 is almost here, and it is arriving bigger than ever! Two days, three parallel tracks of talks and workshops, and some of the biggest names and companies in the industry covering the hottest subjects on the line. Come to the Citilab to see Rasmus Lerdorf, Fabien Potencier, Derick Rethans, Sebastian Bergmann and many more open the hood and expose the secrets of PHP and PHP related technologies that make the Internet what it is today, and that power what the Internet will be tomorrow.

You can still register and get a one-day ticket for 30 Euro and a two-day licket for 50 Euro. There's lots of great sessions to attend and plenty of great things to see and do around the city - sign up while there's still time!

The PHP Barcelona User Group is proud to announce its first international PHP Conference. It will be held Saturday, September 27th in Barcelona (at Citilab, Cornella).

The PHP Barcelona User Group (aka PHPBarcelona) is a non-profit organization aimed at spreading and interchanging knowledge among the PHP developers community of Barcelona and the surrounding area, and also evangelizing the PHP technology to universities and enterprises as well.

The group has held other events this year but this one is the first which will be completely in English. The highlights of this conference will be the talks of internationally recognized PHP developers, like Derick Rethans and Scott MacVicar among others.

For more information about the Barcelona PHP Conference 2008, including more information on the location, speakers and to register, please visit http://phpconference.es.

Mike Potter has pointed out some examples that were shown at the Adobe MAX event in Barcelona surrounding the integration of PHP and Flex.

I gave 3 sessions on Flex and PHP. As part of the presentation I created a number of small samples that show how to use Flex and PHP together. [...] There are examples that show how to read and write data using XML, JSON and WebORB. These are not complicated examples - they are designed to be very simple and show you at a basic level how to connect Flex and PHP together.

The examples are:

• Reading Data from PHP Using XML (REST)
• Reading Data from PHP Using JSON
• Reading Data from PHP Using WebORB (AMF protocol)
• Reversing the above and sending data back to PHP
• Creating your own PHPMyAdmin Automatically

Mike Potter has pointed out some examples that were shown at the Adobe MAX event in Barcelona surrounding the integration of PHP and Flex.

I gave 3 sessions on Flex and PHP. As part of the presentation I created a number of small samples that show how to use Flex and PHP together. [...] There are examples that show how to read and write data using XML, JSON and WebORB. These are not complicated examples - they are designed to be very simple and show you at a basic level how to connect Flex and PHP together.

The examples are:

• Reading Data from PHP Using XML (REST)
• Reading Data from PHP Using JSON
• Reading Data from PHP Using WebORB (AMF protocol)
• Reversing the above and sending data back to PHP
• Creating your own PHPMyAdmin Automatically