http://symfony.sopca.com Symfony, PHP and web development directly from the horse's mouth Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:25:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/1209869[/vimeo] 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 ... http://symfony.sopca.com/2008/06/21/a-symfony-quickie-finding-a-file/ We've just released the initial version of [sfToboAds](http://code.google.com/p/toboads-plugins/source/browse/trunk/symfony_plugin/), a Symfony plugin allowing for integration with [ToboAds](http://www.toboads.com), 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 ... http://symfony.sopca.com/2008/05/21/initial-commit-of-sftoboads-plugin-now-available/ As a tie-in to [this excellent how-to for installing both versions of Symfony](http://symfoniac.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/installing-symfony-11-svn-beside-10-stable/), 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 ... http://symfony.sopca.com/2008/02/27/installing-symfony-11-svn-and-symfony-10-pear-packages-side-by-side-a-windows-vista-how-to-and-xp-too/ A while back, I've stumbled upon an interesting, yet exotic, project - [PAMP](http://sourceforge.net/projects/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](http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PAMP:Installation) (installing on a Nokia N95 with the installation for memory cards) ... http://symfony.sopca.com/2008/02/19/tuesday-weirdness-a-symfony-on-symbian-phones/ 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](http://www.uniformserver.com/). It unzips into a convenient folder anywhere on ... http://symfony.sopca.com/2008/02/06/tired-of-setting-up-your-presentationtesting-environment/ Before I start off, this isn't a Mac vs. PC bash article. Nor is it a comparison between the two. I disclaim any statements about the superiority of each platform, since this will not be an article discussion these topics. That said, let's move on to the topic of relevant ... http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/11/27/apple-safari-windows-and-a-whole-lot-of-confusion/ 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 ... http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/10/17/reaching-deep-into-the-i18n-core/ I've never liked Opera that much - have been trying to use it since version 7, but never got around to actually keep myself using it. I actually prefer IE7 over Opera 9 any given day of the week. Now, it seems, there's yet another reason why I dislike Opera ... http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/10/03/ie-fixed-opera-is-next/ AJAX can be really useful sometimes. We all agree on that. We've pretty much solved the cross-browser divide when it comes to the [XHR](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHR "XMLHttpRequest") object by using libraries, but one thing still remains - what about the GUI? I know this might seem like just another post about using AJAX ... http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/09/26/yet-another-grievous-error-on-ies-part/ 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 ... http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/07/23/more-gotchas-from-the-symfony-world/