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Using Mercurial as VCS for symfony

narko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:58 GMT

For my daily usage I use Mercurial as version control system. I love it’s simplicity and excellent support on Windows. To use Mercurial effectively for symfony, the only thing you need to configure is your .hgignore file. A good practice is to ignore all generated files by symfony for Doctrine or Propel. A typically ignore file of me looks likes this...

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How to send an email with symfony 1.3 and Gmail

narko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:58 GMT

One nice feature coming with symfony 1.3 is an embedded mail system based on Swift Mailer 4.1 Providing a mail system into symfony’s core has been a wide debate since symfony 1.0. The 1st stable version of the framework was coming with an unperfect but operational way of sending emails based on phpMailer. Thus, following the [...]

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Add new tasks in your Symfony project

narko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:58 GMT

So for my very first post in english I will talk about how to add a new task in symfony. Task are very useful to handle a lot of data and can be launched manually or placed in a cron job. I started to create task on a new project, in the past I used to create a batch folder in my symfony project. In this folder I created a symfony.inc.php to load...

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CSRF tokens in symfony

narko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:58 GMT

What is that CSRF thing? CSRF, or Cross-site request forgery, is a form of attack that takes advantage on the trust that a web application has on the user’s browser. If a different site than yours makes a user do a rquest to your site, since the user has a cookie session for your site, if you don’t have further protection, your application will...

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Symfony log management with `logrotate` on Linux

narko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:58 GMT

It sucks when server disks fill up. I have Nagios set up to notify me well before it’s a problem, but it happens annoyingly frequently, and it’s always the same cause: log files. Symfony’s production environments don’t create logs, but the development environments do, and for one project I had several batch jobs logging to the myproject/log directory...

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Add new tasks in your Symfony project

narko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:58 GMT

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Templating engines in PHP - Follow-Up

narko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:58 GMT

My post about template engines in PHP received more than 70 comments as of now, and counting. That's a lot considering most of them are really well thought out, and backed with solid counter-arguments. Thanks everybody for taking the time to participate constructively to the discussion. I'm really proud that the PHP community (or at least the small...

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Templating engines in PHP - Follow-Up

narko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:58 GMT

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Symfony forms saving process

narko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:58 GMT

I always had troubles understanding what really happens in the symfony form process. Even though most of time everything worked great following tutorials, forums, etc.. I needed to understand the magic behind. I wasn’t just quite curious. I found myself one day lost in my own code, I had overriden severals methods but I didn’t know why this one...

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Pre-fill a form in the backend with symfony

narko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:58 GMT

Pre-fill a form in Symfony Hi all, I hope I didn’t miss anything evident since my issue really sounds easy at first sight… What is my problem ? I just want to re-use in the backend objects that already exist to pre-fill some forms. Let’s illustrate the situation with a concrete exemple before jumping into the code. A shop sells more than 100...

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