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A week of symfony #47 (19->25 november 2007)

by Javier Eguiluz – November 25, 2007 – 3 comments

Symfony has completed the last piece of the new form mechanism so the release of the 1.1 version could be inminent.

Development mailing list

• Discussions about Widgets! and run tests from browser instead of cli

Development highlights

• r6113: added a always_render_empty option to sfWidgetFormInputPassword
• r6114: added sfForm and sfFormField classes (yep, the new form framework is now available for general consumption)
• r6115: added unit tests for sfFormField
• r6116, r6119: updated package.xml with the new symfony-project domain name
• r6117: (doc) updated symfony project domain name and trac URL
• r6120, r6121: updated URLs in the symfony default module and for error pages
• r6125, r6126: allow numeric parameters in sfRouting
• r6127, r6128: added a commented relative_url_root with its default value in settings.yml
• r6129, r6130: (sfBrowser) ->click() also search for HTML button elements (closes #2342)
• r6154: switched the default MySQL tables to use InnoDB engine instead of MyISAM
• r6155: removed vendor/ directories from being included in the autoloaded classes
• r6156: removed comment from generated files
• r6157: removed the CSRF filter as sfForm forms are protected by default
• Updated dwhittle branch
• ...and many other changes

Development digest: 62 changesets, 21 defects created, 7 defects closed, 5 enhancements created, 3 enhancement closed, 3 documentation defects created and 74 documentation edits.

Book and documentation

• Updated The sfDoctrine FAQ, Migrations, Installing & Using Syck (a PHP extension for swiftly parsing YAML)
• New Vietnamese documentation page
• Advances in french and russian translations of the book

Wiki

• New Job Postings:
  • Symfony Developer - full-time based in Suresnes, France - Contact: bdessemond [at] imacus [dot] com
  • Symfony Developer - full-time based in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire - Mlogik Cote d'Ivoire - Contact: job [at] mlogik [dot] net
  • Symfony Developer - full-time based in Vienna, Austria - 2beFound Performance Marketing GmbH. - Contact: office [at] 2befound [dot] at
  • Symfony Developer - initial one month contract based in London, UK - Contact: Paul.Thomson [at] johnbrowngroup [dot] co [dot] uk

Plugins

• New plugins
  • sfCommandLinePlugin: provides a centralized way to launch batch script and passing them complex arguments
  • sfKsnNewsPlugin: provides complete solutions for building news publishing system
  • Initial commit of sfModelTestPlugin, sfUtilitiesPlugin
• Updated plugins
  • sfExtjsThemePlugin: added renderer for group-by-header, fixed bug with respect to datastore columnnames, filtering changes so filtering works and is persistant, changes to the filtering template to work better in a narrower side panel, extracted datastores from _list_ajax_layout.php to _ajax_stores.php so they can be reused for independed edit-pages as well, edit-pages can be loaded independedly from list, added possibility to see edit pages in new page, split stores in 3 partials: list, edit and related,
  • sfSimpleBlogPlugin: added the ability to send mail alerts to more than one recipient,
  • sfControlPanelPlugin: better filter on configuration
  • sfSimpleForumPlugin: added missing admin files in package.xml, removed dependency on sfGuard (based on a patch by nico.perriault), pagination helper refactoring (patch from nico.perriault)
  • sfWebBrowserPlugin: sometimes there are submit buttons with the same values so the curl adapter was giving errors
  • sfPropel13Plugin: fixes which were required after a recent Propel code change, finished a fix that had been started re: combining simple and complex object builders
  • sfUIPlugin: change the look of the code
  • sfPropelAlternativeSchemaPlugin: fixed problem on alternative schema detection on Windows systems (patch from lking)
  • sfSugarCRMPlugin: changed properties to 'protected' to enable subclassing, tagged 1.0.1, updated trunk CHANGELOG, updated SVN installation instructions
  • sfExtjs2Plugin: added features to create Ext.application, added parameters support for Ext.object constructors, added parameter support for custom methods, added in quote_except function to make writing classes easier
  • sfPropelMigrationsLightPlugin: fixed a problem with variable names
  • sfPaymentPayboxPlugin: released 1.0.1 version (corrections of 2 bugs)
  • sfPropelPollsPlugin: minor documentation fix

Some new symfony powered websites

• H.Reynaud & Fils: (french, english) essential oils, fragrances & flavors producer
• KnowledgeBid.com: VOIP platform that connects buyers and sellers in the exchange of information
• Albano Guatti E-Commerce: you can buy jeans shirt belt and boxer inspired by from Albano Guatti's masterpiece SEXUENCES
• Symrecruit: specialist Symfony recruitment agency
• Playa Viva: fully sustainable resort and turtle sanctuary being built in Mexico
• anyInput: free application for your organized information. You can store and share information about DVDs, CDs, Stamps, etc.
• Plan Logement: (french and dutch) online status of Brussels Government policy on public housing

They talked about us

• BarCampLeeds
• El lanzamiento de Symfony 1.1 es inminente
• Sensio...c'est aussi du Web Marketing
• Svuotare la cache di Symfony da ogni directory del progetto
• Symfony 1.1 e il Validation Framework
• Tip #5 - Upgrade a project running symfony 1.0
• Fabiens Blog
• Tăng tốc hệ thống chạy symfony
• The power of rsync
• [Talk | Présentation] Simplifier le developpement des interfaces des bases de données avec symfony | Simplifier le developpement des interfaces des bases de données avec symfony
• Symfony 1.1 - What’s new?
• Xây dá»±ng URL riêng cho từng ngôn ngữ vá»›i symfony
• Una semana con Symfony #19 (12 - 18 noviembre 2007)