I recently came across the problem of using multiple input_auto_complete_tag’s. The problem was I needed to store the ID of my first category somewhere, so I could filter the sub-categories returned in the second input_auto_complete_tag. Also, just to make things a little more complicated, there is a third input_auto_complete_tag that needs results filtered by the previous IDs... Join discussion...

Post Symfony 1.1, the sfSslRequirementPlugin will no longer work. Having needed a way to force a SSL connection for certain pages, I modified a few scripts that I found online, and created a very simple filter to handle this. This was inspired by this script, and the unacceptably poor example in the Symfony 1.2 book. To start off with, we need to modify our app... Join discussion...

ModalBox is a cool inline-popup script that can be used to create interactive Web 2.0 dialogs. Modalbox uses the Prototype javascript framework, which is coincidentally the same that Symfony uses for its included Javascript and Ajax functions. Unfortunately Modalbox uses a more recent version of Prototype, and there is no track on when we can... Join discussion...

It's fairly common to use "NOT IN" database queries in web development. Symfony when using Propel does not have native support for using NOT IN queries in reference to another tables. You can use NOT IN and an array, but cannot use NOT IT in reference to another table. Here's how to use NOT IN other_table with Propel and Symfony. Let's pretend we need to run this query... Join discussion...

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 menu items recursively as well as render their content. We are able to load the... Join discussion...

As promised a few weeks ago, we are releasing to the public a Symfony plugin that let’s your Symfony based applications interact with Jabber accounts. This means that your application can communicate with IM users of Google Talk and other Jabber (XMPP based) servers. The possibilities are endless, here are just a few ideas: send and receive... Join discussion...

Working with Symfony's Jobeet tutorial is a fantastic way to learn and advance your Symfony knowledge despite your level of expertise. In this article, I touch on several highlights and discuss ways in which my own code had strayed from the central vision of Symfony. Join discussion...

I've just released my first symfony plugin named sfRestfulAuthenticationPlugin. As you can see from it's name it's something like a port of technoweenie's restful_authentication plugin. It uses some cool new features from symfony 1.2 like the form framework and RESTful routes. Tickets can be submitted on http://sfrestfulauthenticationplugin.lighthouseapp... Join discussion...

The MVC paradigm, adopted in symfony from top to bottom, brings highly decoupled components meant to be used independently. In a symfony application, modules are flexible and allow complex manipulations like : forwarding to another module/action and delegate request processing rendering a module/action in isolation (like an email generation module... Join discussion...

When working on complex applications, it is mostly common to deal with several database connections. The main database is often built and adminstrated by yourself, but you sometimes need to handle external databases, probably with a read-only access. Symfony and propel allows you to easily manage these ‘externals’ connections. You can create several schema... Join discussion...