Symfony2 testing with PHP unit quick tip
I ran into a few issues running tests for a symfony2 project that seems to be common to many people once your test suite starts to be more important. One of the common issues that people encounter is...
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Doctrine objects schizophrenia & the ACL!
There’s a problem many people seem to encounter in Symfony2 and that appears when you start using the ACL component for security along with Doctrine. The ACL defines an object’s identity based on its...
View ArticleCustom database type with Doctrine 2 for Posgres GIS
Very quick post today, but I’m recently migrating a MySQL database to a Postgres one because the guys using it want to now take advantage of the geographical possibilities of Postgres. Some tables were...
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Validate your user before “any” method call
In the app we’re developing, I want the registration process to be as painless as possible, so the registration form only asks you for a few very basic things: username email password However we want...
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User dependent forms in symfony2
In a lot of cases it can happen that you want to make your forms different based on the user currently browsing your app. The cookbook currently shows how to change a form with event subscribers...
View ArticleSymfony bloggers on Twitter
A while ago, I had cleaned up all the database of symfony related blog feeds from the old symfony website, as well as added a few of my own. The whole thing is published as a single RSS feed. Now the...
View ArticlePartial templates with underscore.js
We’re doing some pretty advanced stuff at my company using underscore.js and to simplify some of it I wanted to use partial templates in my templates. For example, we have different kind of tooltips...
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Version tagging strategies for composer
Composer, the dependency manager for php is awesome. Incredibly awesome, and gaining more awesomeness by the day. There used to be many glitches, edge cases that made me grinch from time to time to...
View ArticleSymfony book: “Extending Symfony” available
Just because this blog was not updated with much Symfony content for quite a while doesn’t mean I stopped writing about it! In fact I’m happy to anounce the immediate availability of Extending Symfony...
View ArticleWin 3 copies of “Extending Symfony 2″
I have 3 e-copies of Extending Symfony 2 Web Application Framework for you to win. The rules are simple. You need to either reply here in the comments or tweet telling me why you deserve to get a free...
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