Archive for the ‘symfony’ Category
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
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 ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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 ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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 ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
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 ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
I've found the distinction between redirect() and forward() a little tricky to draw. It always seems to sound obvious until you need to use them. I found a nice article here http://firebird84vn.wordpress.com/category/symfony/. To quote:
The choice between a redirect or a forward is sometimes tricky. To choose the best solution, keep in ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
scampiandchips: Bad fish & chips
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