Matthew Bull

web development

Archive for June, 2008

symfony’s sfGuard plugin and LDAP

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

A while ago I needed to hook up symfony's excellent sfGuard plugin to some LDAP functionality. There are a couple of issues with the plugin and the readme which I think need fixing. In particular, there is no support for checking both LDAP and standard sfGuard passwords. This is absolutely essential ...

Matrix GUI, asset builders (and mums)

Friday, June 20th, 2008

After fun and a few frustrations sorting out designs in MySource Matrix in my last post (probably mostly caused by me not knowing what I was doing, and with limited time to sort things out), I've been looking at the overall user interface for editors. The interface is possibly a tad intimidating ...

MySource Matrix design

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

I've been playing around with mysource matrix on my laptop recently, as an early development stage to our pilot while we're waiting for the server hardware to be set up. One of the first things I've been looking at has been setting up designs, and I have to admit it's been ...

mini symfony

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

I recently read this post by Francois Zaninotto (recently an ex-core symfony developer) about modifying symfony to make it lightweight enough for ajax calls. As he puts it: That's when the idea of a "small symfony" comes. Wouldn't it be great if you could get access to the model layer, the configuration, ...