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A week of symfony #54 (7->13 january 2008)

by Javier Eguiluz – January 13, 2008 – 2 comments

Calm week for symfony framework with little core development activity. In contrast, plugins show intense activity and symfony related job postings continue growing.

Development mailing list

• Discussions about Migrating plugins towards 1.1 and inclusion of plugin:build-package task in sf1.1

Development highlights

• r6987, r6988: [1.0, 1.1] fixed caching bug in production (closes #2764)
• r6990: [1.1] forced form tainted values and tainted files to be arrays
• r6991: [1.1] fixed schema validator when you have a field named 0 (because in PHP 0 == 'a string' returns true)
• r7010: [1.1] fixed configure:database task when databases.yml is empty
• r7011: [1.1] improved sfCallable exception message
• Updated dwhittle branch: tweaked exceptions, tweaked factories to use apc cache by default + set security.yml values (default/all), tweaked / commented factories.yml
• ...and many other changes

Development digest: 53 changesets, 18 defects created, 4 defects closed, 2 enhancements created, 1 enhancement closed, 4 documentation defects created, 2 documentation defects closed and 24 documentation edits.

Book and documentation

• Created How to convert propel schema to doctrine schema page
• Updated sfGuard plugin - extra documentacion (spanish) page
• Advances in deutsch translation of the book

Wiki

• New Job Postings:
  • Web developer @ WorldWeb Interactive - full-time job based in Kolding, Denmark - Contact: job [at] wwi [dot] dk
  • Symfony Developer @ Abansys & Hostytec S.L. - full-time based in Valencia, Spain - Contact: rrhh [at] tusprofesionales [dot] es
  • Symfony developer @ a Silicon Valley VC-funded startup - work will be done remotely on a contract basis - Contact: tliadsiobb [at] farifluset.mailexpire.com
  • PHP Developer @ The NetCircle - full-time based in Shanghai, China - Contact: claude [at] thenetcircle [dot] com
  • Senior PHP engineers @ Ibuildings - full-time based in Amsterdam, Vlissingen and Sittard - Contact: saskia [at] ibuildings [dot] nl
• New developers for hire:
  • John Grimsey (john [at] johngrimsey.co.uk): London (UK) based PHP developer, 6+ years experience. Four Symfony projects deployed to date.
  • MoCo, Inc.: a full service marketing company dedicated to agile web development and the open source movement, based in Minneapolis, MN.
  • Ibuildings: The PHP Professionals: The Netherlands and UK-based company. We provide web application development, consultancy and education. Official partner of Zend.
  • Stefan Koopmanschap (stefan [at] ibuildings.nl): developing in symfony since 2005, developing in PHP since 1997. Experienced Zend certified developer who is also available as consultant or for projects.
• New symfony blogger:
  • SymfonyBR (website, feed)
  • morethanseven (website, feed)

Plugins

• New plugins
  • sfForms11Plugin: provides a symfony forms 1.1 wrapper plugin for using it in symfony 1.0. As Symfony 1.1 forms/widget/validators are 100% independant from the framework, it's not a problem to use it in a symfony 1.0 project, or even in a non symfony project.
  • sfPropelSqlDiffPlugin: generates diff.sql file, which contains difference beetween schema.yml and current database structure
• Updated plugins
  • ddAccessibleFormPlugin: now uses SF_JQUERY_WEB_DIR if it's set versus it's own jquery, updated the documentation
  • sfExtjsThemePlugin: implemented JS to prevent onBlur events, disabled event messages, improved naming for JS-variables, fixed some bugs, comboboxes now automatically resolve unloaded values
  • dkAntispamPlugin: refactored spam strings regexp-ification to config handler, to avoid overhead
  • sfDoctrinePlugin: updated to use 0.9 branch of Doctrine, changed to allow a user to send a dql statement as an option to the object_admin_xxx helper
  • sfMDB2RestPlugin: added a method to the client to get the server URL that it is currently using
  • sfJobQueuePlugin: added logger in sfJobHandler
  • sfPropelActAsRatableBehaviorPlugin: french i18n XLIFF file bundled, added a commented app.yml-sample file, added a new config parameter cookie_prefix, fixed bug with custom star width configurations
  • sfAuthorizeNetPlugin: updated the class to allow the use of api login id and api transaction key, adding a setter and getter for custom attributes so you can add anything you want to the transaction
  • sfPropelActAsCommentableBehaviorPlugin: added messages in french, cache author name (performance improvement)
  • sfPropelActAsPolymorphicBehaviorPlugin: added pake task, propel-load-pm-data for loading data from fixtures in a way that respects polymorphic keys
  • sfGeocoderPlugin: fixed the way Google Maps handles Cities (at least for the US), handle country only searches much better
  • sfLucenePlugin: added ability to lock the Propel behavior
  • sfJqueryPlugin: loading jquery.js before all javascript files
  • sfGuardDoctrinePlugin: added a security file for each module which would be used in the backend for editing, added a fixture file to assign all the permissions
  • nahoWikiPlugin: several small fixes
  • Updated documentation of sfExtjs2Plugin, sfAdvancedAdminGeneratorPlugin

Some new symfony powered websites

• ALL-TLD GmbH: (german) webhosting & DomainNameServices company located in Mannheim (BW)
• www.hma-info.de: (german) site of a reenactment group portraing medieval life in the 13th century

They talked about us

• Utilizando Partial e Components
• El lío de los plugins de Symfony
• 株式会社ナレッジデータベース
• [PHP][オブジェクト指向]フレームワーク
• Community News: A Look Back at 2007
• 在symfony中使用多个数据库
• A nice horseass named symfony....
• A symfony success story - Part I
• Een week vol symfony #53 (31 december 2007 -> 7 januari 2008)
• Convert propel schema to doctrine schema
• The status of symfony 1.1
• How to hide symfony project in subfolder
• How To: Build Your Schema from Multiple Database Connections
• sfForms11Plugin: use symfony 1.1 form/validation framework in symfony 1.0 or non-symfony project
• How to deploy PHP sites with the Pake build tool
• Bảng tra cứu Criteria, Criterion và ResultSet của propel
• Security
• symfonyでTwitterを作ってみる part1 プロジェクト作成
• 初心者がまとめたsymfonyのデータベースのデータのやり取り
• Phoogle usage with Symfony
• （仮）symfonyでTwitterを作ってみる part2 テンプレート作成
• Symfony, une redirection 302 et une exception sont dans un bateau