Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

Releasing cool symfony plugins on github

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

It's been a long time since my last post and probably an even longer felt waiting time for those of you dear readers waiting for code. But wait no more, and check out 3 fresh plugins on my github: weUniversalClassLoaderPlugin Want to use an Sf2 component or any other namespaced PHP code ...

What to do when symfony cli colorization does not work on unix systems

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

I recently ran into an interesting problem: symfony wouldn't colorize the command-line output on any recently installed openSUSE (11.2) system. At first I was totally at a loss, but after diving into the code base and doing some debugging I finally found the core of the problem: the posix PHP ...

Symfony Live 2010 review

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

The conference is over, I'm back in Vienna since Thursday evening and life has gone back to everyday normal. The city of Paris was quite interesting, I especially liked the broad architectural scope. Unfortunately I didn't have much time for sightseeing. But let's get back to why I was there, ...

Support symfony at the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards 2009

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

The SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards are on again and it's time to nominate the greatest rapid application development PHP framework: symfony! I've nominated symfony in 3 categories: Best Tool or Utility for Developers Best Project Best Commercial Open Source Project Click the picture to nominate symfony too! Of course don't forget to read and follow ...

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.

Creating a routing-based menu in symfony 1.2, part 1: the structure

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

The new symfony routing system with object routes and other niceties is so useful that you might consider basing your application navigation upon it. In my following articles I want to show you how to get a fully configurable multi-level menu system based on a minimalistic yaml syntax (and you ...