Archive for April, 2009

TiddlyWiki – a JavaScript only Wiki engine

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Today I stumbled upon a JavaScript Wiki engine called TiddlyWiki. It consists of a single HTML file using JQuery to modify itself. There's also a good documentation MediaWiki on tiddlywiki.org. TiddlyWiki has a plugin system where you can attach customization JavaScript allowing for various new features. It even provides an ...

symfony at the “Linux weeks Vienna”

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

From April 16th to 18th the so-called Linux weeks will take place in the city hall of Vienna/Austria. There will be a symfony desk providing general information and exchange of personal experience using symfony. Bernhard Schussek and Klemens Ullmann, the heads behind webmozarts.com, will give 2 lectures about symfony in ...

Improving the forms even more

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

After reading Bernhard's great article about how the symfony forms framework could be enhanced I sat back and thought: how would I like the forms to be? What could be improved to increase my efficiency? Well, after 2 days of brain storming I have found those areas: Field grouping Field formatters Required marks Separators Submit ...

Creating a routing-based menu in symfony 1.2, part 4: the full package

Monday, April 6th, 2009

During the last 3 articles I showed you how to define the menu structure, generate sfMenuItem objects and create a builder that does all this for you. Today I want to present you the full package of my sfMenuBuilder and describe all the additional options I included. Owing to a comment ...

Creating a routing-based menu in symfony 1.2, part 3: the builder

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

After defining a menu structure and describing the sfMenuItem object it's time to show you how to pack the whole menu thing up to generate the menu with a few lines of code. Up until now we have defined a tree structure in yaml and created a PHP class to generate ...

Creating a routing-based menu in symfony 1.2, part 2: the MenuItem object

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

During my last article I described how the structure of my routing-based menu is defined. This time I want to show you how to create menu item objects using this structure as the source. You will also learn how the items interact with the symfony environment.