Posts Tagged ‘ symfony ’

Review of Panic’s Coda – One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X

I’ve recently been trialling Coda, Panic’s web development environment for Mac OSX. It currently costs $99 (about £65 at current rates) per licence, and offers a fully-featured 15-day trial before you burn your money. The version I’m looking at here is 1.6.2. Coda sells itself as offering a complete environment for all-round web developers: somewhere to [ 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 ]

symfony and LDAP

I've recently been looking at the essential (ie why isn't it included in the core?) symfony plugin sfGuard. It offers are really nice, simple way of building a simple user, role, and permissions system into your symfony app[ READ MORE ]

symfony routes

Routing is a great way to get user-friendly urls, generate new urls for the same code, or refactor old urls without having to touch your code. They are perhaps a little tricky to get used to at first, but fairly quickly make sense. The main thing to realise is that rules work from top to bottom, and the first one to match is used. Quite often problems or unexpected results come from not ordering the rules correctly. Always put more general rules lower down! [ READ MORE ]

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