A week of symfony #197 (4->10 October 2010)

This week the symfony community gathered around the Symfony Day 2010 conference. The event hosted many insightful sessions and the Symfony2 CMF meetup. In addition, a new major component of Symfony2 was introduced: the Firewall component, which provides authentication and authoritation for applications.

Development mailing list

• Symfony2 security feedback
• Symfony2: Preferred languages and culture fallback
• asset installation

symfony 1 development highlights

Activity summary: 43 changesets, 14 bugs reported, 10 bugs fixed, 7 enhancements suggested, 1 enhancement closed, 2 documentation defects reported, and 13 documentation edits

Symfony2 development highlights

Changelog:

• 2525998: replaced form field rendering with plain templates
• ff683a6, 3bc3115: integrated new data fixtures code
• caa9d82: [HttpFoundation] added support for attributes in RequestMatcher

New developers for hire

• Scenic City Labs: is a web application development company with 10+ years of experience. We are currently based in Chattanooga, TN. We use symfony for the majority of our projects but can custom tailer any application to whatever you desire.
• Tejaswi Sharma (tej.nri@gmail.com): I am Tejaswi Sharma and I am working in PHP/MySql/Apache for 4 years and symfony for 2 years. Feel free to contact me if you have any issues in symfony.

New plugins

• themeTwentyten: TwentyTen Wordpress theme version under symfony sfThemePlugin.
• sfPrintableForm: Make a form printable version.
• sfPLValidators: Provides validation of polish specific codes (NIP, Polish tax identification number and Pesel, Polish human identification number)
• acHostDependant: provides the ability to have different configuration depending on the hostname.
• fpBackup: (no description)
• pokretWidgetFormDateTimeWithAmPm: (no description)

Updated plugins

• sfDoctrineActAsSignable:
  • added sfDoctrineGuardPlugin behavior
• sfDoctrineActAsTaggable:
  • added query method to fetch tags and tagging counts for various a set of taggable models
  • modified TagTable::queryTagsWithCountsByModel to be more compatible with existing doctrine relations
  • fixed Iterators for escaped arrays stop when a false value is encountered
  • added function to merge two tags
• tdCore:
  • improvements in tdSubpage
• ExtjsGenerator:
  • fixed sorting route generated url
  • added listpanel loader
  • added Listview CheckboxSelection ux and checkbox selection support to ListView
  • updated ListView RowActions css
  • added ListView override to fix a bug with IE (can be removed when ExtJs 3.3.0 is released)
  • added ListView support to batch actions
  • added tasks to create admin modules in an existing plugin
• sfPHPUnit2:
  • refactored loading of sfApplicationConfiguration instance
  • added helper method for debugging
• sfFormExtra:
  • fixed the impossibility to remove the value for the sfWidgetFormJQueryAutocompleter
• srPageChooser:
  • removed srValidatorSlug (deprecated by aValidatorSlug)
  • cleaned up the widget class
  • fixed javascript error on button click
  • allowed for output escaping to be turned on
• sfAssetsLibrary:
  • new helper for ckeditor browser
  • updated readme with instructions how to use sfAssetsLibraryPlugin as CKEditor file browser without other Plugin
• sfCKEditor:
  • updated readme waiting for deploymet of sfAssetsLibraryPlugin with CK Editor addon
• sfI18nFormExtractor:
  • now translates help messages from forms
• sfAtosPayment:
  • fixed some syntax bugs
• apostrophe:
  • initial version of aTagAdmin
  • styled the feedback you get after using the Replace File feature
  • if the update's timestamp is no good, don't attempt to strtotime() it
  • moved the ajax submit function to a.js to get it out of the edit partial
  • created apostrophe.linkToRemote so we can begin replacing all of those inline jq_link_to_remote() functions
  • working on getting editing working correctly in the four-up view in Media
  • added disqus partial includes to layout.php
  • made it easier to override default behavior of aCategoryAdmin
  • page editing permissions have been completely overhauled (a big win for large sites with many editors)
  • slideshow slots now support displaying everything with certain categories and tags as an alternative to browsing for individual images
  • removed Image slot
  • renamed Slideshow slot in BaseaTools as the first step to unifying aImage and aSlideshow
  • updated instructions for choosing a photo or photos with the slideshow slot
  • new aMediaItem::getImageAvailable method is preferred to checking for a width before trying to display a thumbnail
  • fixed some of the default dimensions issues in the button slot
  • adjusted four-up behavior for non-images
  • created active states for the View settings so you know which one is selected
  • the new view permissions are roughed in and working
  • fixed potential bug in category merging
  • added category merging to tag admin
  • moved slide show image ordering into Slot classes
• apostropheBlog:
  • integrated disqus comments
  • added orderBy to aEventActions:buildQuery
  • added 'Preview' to the Blog and Events admin
  • added a max_per_page setting to aBlog and aEvent in app.yml
  • BlogItem::getMediaForAreas() now respects slide show ordering

New symfony powered websites

• Blidoo: (English) a generalist classified ads site
• dramadance.pl: (Polish) website of an entertainment company
• EticWeb: (French) our site offers to reduce the carbon footprint of individuals while minimizing travel-related purchases, sales and barter of goods and services
• Reflector Guide: (English, Spanish, Finnish, Russian) site about pedestrian reflectors
• Työkyvyntuki: (Finnish) work ability service for medium sized companies
• MediaBurse.ru: (Russian) place where journalists and publishers buy\sell articles
• InterScientia.com: (English, Finnish, French, Russian, Swedish) a Workshop for All Men And Women Seeking to Share Knowledge Across Borders

New symfony bloggers

• Synofony (feed) (English)

They talked about us

• How to make symfony use a different login page depending on your current module/action?
• Symfony filter forms and related tables
• Easy list ordering / sorting on any field
• Logging MongoDB queries using Symfony2 and Doctrine ODM
• SfDoctrineGuardPlugin bug: Unknown method SfGuardUserTable::retrieveByUsername
• symfony & Doctrine behavior review
• How to define a default value in your schema.yml when using the Doctrine data type Array
• Doctrine query caching causing 'Invalid parameter number' error for queries using 'IN ?'
• Thank you for PHPMatsuri!
• Setting up a symfony project with PHPUnit on Hudson
• Ocari, le CMS français orienté presse, pour les gens de la presse
• Projet planté ? Demandez l'aide d'un gourou de l’open source
• Symfony Parallel Content Delivery
• Symfony – file uploads with custom names and paths
• Creating indexes for your Doctrine ODM documents with Symfony 2
• Relaunch der softSCIENCE-Homepage
• symfony day 2010 in Cologne
• JustMarried : mise à jour de Symfony2
• El estado actual de Symfony2
• Doctrine and Zend Framework
• Extendiendo el sfActions de Symfony 2/2
• Formularios en Symfony
• Symfony, cron and HTML emails (getPartial from cron)
• Come gestire pagine statiche con symfony
• 絵文字のためにsymfonyのカスタムハンドラーを作ってみました
• Add properties to a relationship – Dealing with forms in symfony 1.4
• まずSymfony中。
• Symfony 1.4 quick commands
• Desenvolvendo um módulo de contato no Symfony 1.4
• Установка и конфигурирование php-фреймворка symfony
• Dialogos con Jquery y symfony
• 5 pasos para trasladar aplicación Symfony a ambiente de producción
• Doctrine Nested Sets in Symfony
• Saving Multiple Objects With One Form in symfony
• symfony框架实战视频：60分钟开发一个CMS
• Creating an arbitrary pulldown filter