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... Join discussion...

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 [...] Join discussion...

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... Join discussion...

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... Join discussion...

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... Join discussion...

Hi, Every PHP developper who had one day to deal with a LDAP tree realized sadly there was no ready to use library to do all the dirty work. That always meant back the the PHP doc and re invent the wheel over and over again. As it is more often people ask me about symfony and LDAP, I decided [...] Join discussion...

The symfony admin generator is a BIG time saver. It’s almost like magic, it generates an administration interface based on your database models. If you spend countless hours creating lists and forms to manage data in tables, you are crazy not to use it. When you have HTML content in a table, the ideal is to show a WYSIWYG editor instead of the TEXTAREA where the HTML will be displayed... Join discussion...

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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... Join discussion...

After setting up a simple file upload using the symfony 1.2 forms class and a doctrine model, I hit this error right away: 500 | Internal Server Error | Doctrine_Validator_Exception 1 field had validation error: * 1 validator failed on file (type) The short solution: when using a doctrine form class and $form->save(), set the path option... Join discussion...