It’s been a while, but I’ve finally made the plunge and did the first in the series of cookbook-related screencast tutorials for Symfony. http://www.vimeo.com/1209869 Edit: here’s the gist of the video. == The sfFinder class == Symfony comes bundled with the sfFinder class that lets you conveniently search for files and directories. It has a simple fluent interface that […]
We’ve just released the initial version of sfToboAds, a Symfony plugin allowing for integration with ToboAds, an advertising network offering contextual text and graphic advertising to the masses (banners are contextual!). The initial release is pending PEAR packaging before being offered as a compressed download, for now, it’s available via the subversion repository on the […]
As a tie-in to this excellent how-to for installing both versions of Symfony, I’ve decided to extend the method to apply to Vista as well. EDIT: Symlinks don’t work this way because of the working directory being in C:\PHP where the symlink is located. See below for modified instructions. First, check out the SVN branch for 1.1 […]
A while back, I’ve stumbled upon an interesting, yet exotic, project - PAMP. It promises to bring the full Apache/MySQL/PHP stack to the Symbian phone. So, on a whim, I decided to try it out. After following the installation instructions (installing on a Nokia N95 with the installation for memory cards) and starting up the PAMP […]
Yeah, I’ve been away a while, had no time to update this blog, but still have been active on freenode’s #symfony channel. Just a quick tip for anyone interested or looking for a better solution than XAMP - it’s called The Uniform Server. It unzips into a convenient folder anywhere on your computer and sits there […]
When creating truly internationalized content, you need to think of a few things - first, what country your are in, and secondly, what the locale is in that country. Why should you care? User input. While Symfony does have handy features via sfI18N, it doesn’t expose some of the methods needed to correctly parse strings. While […]
Well, it seems there’s a few other things that aren’t as they seem in Symfony - if they’re expected or not, they are things I’ve noticed and needed a few minutes (or in a another case) or just over two hours to figure out. All of them have to do with Symfony’s output escaper using PHPView. […]
If you’ve ever asked yourself just why your web site or web app doesn’t perform as well as you’ve thought it would, since you’ve given a lot thought into the design of the page and user interface, then you might ask yourself - are you the proper person to be judging the design? In comes usability […]
There’s an interesting aspect about using functions within partials, which I’ve written about before - the existence of functions and the dangers of redeclaring them. The problem here is using partial-specific functions within partials. We’ve had an instance where we needed a function to solve a recursive problem when displaying data within the partial (a complex […]
If you’re like me and you don’t trust yourself to catch all of the breadcrumbs you leave behind you, you tend to rely on an arsenal of tools to keep you in check. This is especially true with XLIFF and Symfony. There’s an i18n generation script that scans your actions, YAMLs and templates for the use […]