Archive for the ‘ symfony ’ Category

Hooked into Drupal

In my last blog I mentioned how Drupal really does seem to offer more than just the ability to get a simple site up and running quickly. Framework When you look at Drupal more closely you realise one key thing: it’s not really a CMS, it’s a framework. Granted, nothing quite like Symfony in terms of its level of sophistication, but [ READ MORE ]

OpenSearch

One really useful thing I came across at IWMW 2008 was the ability to put your own site’s search into the browser’s list of search tools. You know, that little google box in Firefox where you can in fact bring down a list of other search engines. That can have your site’s search tool in [ READ MORE ]

IWMW 2008 – day 2

So, we’re into day 2 of the IWMW 2008 conference at Aberdeen. Day 1 passed with much alcohol, dancing, Aberdonian ‘furry boots’, oh and some web stuff too. I think the highlight was an excellent opening talk by Derrick McClure from the Centre for Linguistic Research at Aberdeen. It was a novel idea to have an [ READ MORE ]

symfony 1.1 and 1.2

symfony 1.1 went live just a month or so ago, and in the relatively short history of symfony is somewhat of a revolution. In fact, the shift in a minor version number belies the effort and heartache that seems to have gone into the newer version, and one wonders at the implied major revamp that symfony [ READ MORE ]

symfony’s sfGuard plugin and LDAP

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 (eg an admin user or guest users who aren't in LDAP), and I'm somewhat amazed that there's no provision for this. Moreover, the plugin structure generally makes it seemingly impossible (or if it is possible it's just too horrible to contemplate) to write your own checkPassword() which does do both sorts of checking[ READ MORE ]

mini symfony

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, the autoloading, the user object, [ READ MORE ]

Zaninotto

Looks like Francois Zaninotto, one of the core symfony developers, has quit the team. He was largely responsible for the documentation, and co-authored the excellent symfony book, published by Apress. One of the key successes behind symfony was the documentation. The fact that there was human-readable documentation, and not just an API, was a remarkable thing [ READ MORE ]

symfony admin generator

The symfony admin generator is one of the best features of the framework. With just a couple of commands and a few changes to a config file, you can have something pretty close to a database access interface. There's a simple built in security module, and sfGuard is fairly simple to understand if you need a more complex security module[ READ MORE ]

symfony redirect vs forward

OK, so basically a submitted form should be redirected by the action (as opposed to doing a forward). In other situations where you're calling part of your own application, just use a forward(). Maybe I've missed something, but this seems pretty straightforward (pun unintended) after all[ READ MORE ]

scampiandchips: Bad fish & chips

scampiandchips: Bad fish & chips [ READ MORE ]

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