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Is symfony 1.1 too verbose?

narko — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:04:49 GMT

Among the remarks have about symfony 1.1, the most recurring one is the shift of philosophy between the 1.0 and 1.1 syntax. If symfony 1.0 syntax was made to write code fast, I believe it is not the case anymore with symfony 1.1, which is designed primarily for extensibility. The result is that a symfony 1.1 application looks a lot more like a Java program...

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I’m wondering if there are available admin themes somewhere. It’s really strange but simple googl

symfony — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:04:49 GMT

I’m wondering if there are available admin themes somewhere. It’s really strange but simple googling and search on symfony forum does not give me anything new. What I knew before is good Joomla-like theme available here (this one is easy to use and integrate): http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php/m/16515/ also there is available plugin based on ExtJs but it seems in early development (and it’s pretty slow at least when I tested it out): http://trac.symfony-project.com/wiki/sfExtjsThemePlugin There is also plugin which provide distinct configurations between create and edit actions: http://trac.symfony-project.com/wiki/sfAdvancedAdminGeneratorPlugin And that’s all? I bet there must be guys who has own themes ( themesholders ) Why I’m started to talk about all this stuff. I found today in my RSSs this link and thought how good it would be if someone integrates such theme for symfony: http://webresourcesdepot.com/wp-content/uploads/file/admin-template/index.html Maybe someday me..

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How to write complex queries using Propel

narko — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:04:49 GMT

This is a monster subject, and I spent a long time scratching my head over a few things yesterday, until I came across this site: http://propel.jondh.me.uk/ It’s developed by a Symfony user, and allows you to type in sql statements using nested braces for prioritising. The form will then return a nicely formatted block of Propel code. It’...

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Help! Symfony is ignoring my settings in app.yml

narko — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:04:49 GMT

Something that just cropped up today… As your site grows, and you add more and more config to the app.yml file, be very careful not to re-declare the same named element. Symfony will not warn you, and there will be no errors - but the second (lower) instance will simple overwrite the first! For example, if you have forgotten that you already...

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Retrieving a random record in Symfony using Propel

narko — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:04:49 GMT

Just a quicky, as I had to spend 10 mins looking this up hopefully it’ll save someone else time later. I need to retrieve a random user from the users table, but didn’t know how to express a random record… this method will return a single random user, or can take an argument to return more than 1 UserPeer public static function...

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Don't be fooled by awkyard view.yml js/css positionning syntax!

narko — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:04:49 GMT

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So what symfonians are talking about?

symfony — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:04:49 GMT

as you know we propose 2 additional services along with writing about symfony. First one is articles voting service and the other one is twitter symfony community. Voting one is a good chance to read usefull articles and dont waste time on the other ones. We aggregate most of articles and then we personally vote only for the best ones. Community on twitter helps you to have some fun from reading what are talking symfony developers about. This community exists more than month and it’s slowly growing each day. Guys are talking about food, movies, new projects, share links.

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Using observe_field to update an input

narko — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:04:49 GMT

Had an issue on Acme Video Website where I want to prepopulate some content on a form element after making an ajax call to a 3rd party API. Problems comes, in that observe_field (part of the prototype javascript library), is designed to update a div, so I was incorrectly trying to do this: echo observe_field('hint', array( 'update' =>...

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I18n is for life (actions), not just for Christmas (templates)

narko — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:04:49 GMT

Well, the point is make sure you Internationalise everything, not just the text you have in the templates. For example, when using ajax calls you may be rendering text directly from actions, or you may be throwing exceptions which have meaningful error messages which are displayed by the template. You need to remember to “i18nalise” this...

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When the pager_navigation function does not create the correct link…

narko — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:04:49 GMT

If you have used a route name in the call to this function, it will be parsed based on your routing.yml file, this means that if you don’t have a :page variable listed (and you probably don’t) the route will ignore the page argument that the pager function tries to add. The easy solution is to add /* to the end of your routing rule, so that any other parameters are allowed...

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