I’ve recently been setting up my new dreamhost for symfony projects deployment and the only thing the default PHP is missing is the support for APC (alternate php cache).

For Symfony application I’m developing I needed all the Region separated by continent (7 continents model). I converted the MySql World Database (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/world-setup/en/world-setup.html) to a YAML NestedSet fixture file.
I just had to make 4 minor changes to it:
- rename the 3 continents that had region with the same name name (North America, South America, [...]

Using Mysql workbench to visually design a data model for a symfony application is pretty cool. Thanks to the guys of http://code.google.com/p/mysql-workbench-doctrine-plugin/ you can export the model to a YAML file ready for Doctrine.

set up a working Symfony project (with SVN) on my bluehost shared hosting, this tutorial should work for other hosters with minor changes. What I wanted was to be able of using my account as a development server for a small group of developers that would automatically show the last revision of the SVN repository. I pushed the solution further and created on the same account two more subdomains for the staging and production server.