Unless I’m just going blind, there is no mention of this in the manual, but if you want to have a dropdown on your form for someone to input a time, there is a helper for it… just use: echo select_time_tag ( 'cutover_time' , 'now' ) ; The first arg is the name for the field, the second is the time to display... Join discussion...

This was meant to be a helpful post on getting an ajax observe_field working on a radiobutton_tag, but it is just as likely to lead to frustration, because there is a problem with prototype which means it won’t work as you may expect (more on that later), but it may still be useful for some, so here’s how you do it: I have used two radio... Join discussion...

I’m pretty sure you’ve already heard of Google Gears (now it’s just “Gears” as the other companies along with Google joined to the development process), so just to remind Gears is a browsers plug-in which makes possible your site works offline on users machines. This technology incudes 3 main core elements Join discussion...

Sometimes you may need to store complicated data with non-fixed fields/data types in table. There are different ways for that but if we use symfony where YML is so native and good known - why dont store data in table as YML-formed value. Join discussion...

Attention Symfony PHP addicts: For those who might want to catch up on some Symfony programming on the train, bus, plane or even for reading it on your mobile phone whilst you are on the toilet - having an offline version of the Symfony book would be useful. So we have done that for you. Feed your symfony addiction: Get the offline version of the Symfony Book for Symfony 1... Join discussion...

One of the recurring concern when developing an internationalized application, is to not let any element untranslated. This is natively complicated, even with the brand new symfony 1.1. You often end up with untranslated URLs or meta tags. But using the Framework in conjonction with the Yahoo!'s plugin ysfDimensionsPlugin will fill all the blanks you could have experienced once... Join discussion...

Any modern relational database engine supports the onDelete and onUpdate attributes on foreign keys. Propel and Doctrine of course allows to define it in the schema file (yaml or xml) and I believe it is important to explicitly set it. Restrict mode ??Better do nothing than something stupid.?? The default behaviour is ON DELETE RESTRICT. This... Join discussion...

I must say the older I’m getting the more pessimistic I’m about new technologies. All this buzz around RIA .. I was never tried to understand what is going on there, technologies are changing one other: Laszlo, OpenLaszlo, Flex, AIR, Silverlight. Join discussion...

When it comes to ORMs, it's all a matter of preference. Is it, really? This post compares side-by-side the code required to perform some simple operations with three OO database requesting API. The purpose is to demonstrate that productivity, and not only style, can vary a lot depending on the ORM you choose. There are not many robust Object Relational Mapping layers in PHP5... Join discussion...

I was just catching up on my feeds this morning, and came across an update on another great piece of workby Francois. The easiest way to explain what I like about this plugin is just to look at the following example… it is in another class for ease of readability and simplicity in writing compared to the ’standard’ symfony method... Join discussion...