Archives for 09/2008
The 1.1.3 maintenance version of symfony is published today, just two weeks after the previous 1.1.2 maintenance release. It fixes an important regression in the "cache:clear" command line code.
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Few weeks ahead of its release, symfony 1.2 continues improving components such as routing and forms while adding some goodies like format support for exceptions.
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Symfony 1.2 already comes with a lot of great new features but smaller things also matter a lot.
Here is yet another post about small things we have recently added to symfony 1.2.
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In the last part, we have moved some code to ProductForm. Today, we will enhance the actions even more by moving code to the View and by using some nice shortcuts provided by symfony for common situations.
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In the last part, we have seen how to move code from the Controller to the Model. The principle is quite simple, you want thin controllers and fat models.
Today, we will see how the new form framework can help us keep this clean separation of concerns.
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Today, we will start by refactoring some actions from the product module.
As symfony is modeled after the MVC design pattern, Vince was pretty confident that he did the separation of concerns pretty well.
The Controller role is to get data from the Model and pass them to the View.
Pretty simple, no?
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Refactoring implies a lot of changes in the code. It means that you need a way to check that you don't break anything during the process. So, before beginning the refactoring session, I asked Vince about its unit and functional test suite.
But Vince had no unit or functional tests. So, we decided to write some functional tests before starting the refactoring.
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I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of symfony 1.1.2. A lot of bugs have been fixed in this new release, especially in the forms framework and in command-line tasks.
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Some time ago, Vince, a seasoned PHP developer, asked me to have a look at his very first symfony project, a product store.
As the mistakes he did were quite common, I decided to tell you the story of this refactoring session in the hope you will learn as much as Vince did.
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This week, the second edition of the symfony camp was held, with more than 80 attendees. In the technical talks, the great new features of symfony 1.2 were shown and the future of symfony 2 was outlined. Besides, the Symfony community showed this week its strength with a massive support for symfony inclusion in NetBeans.
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symfony Camp day 2
by Stefan Koopmanschap – September 13, 2008
The second and last conference day of symfony Camp was today.
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symfony Camp started yesterday with a symfony 1.1 training but today is the first conference day.
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Symfony continued this week adding cool new features for the upcoming 1.2 version. The routing framework will be refactored to allow further customization and complete RESTful architecture. In addition, Propel plugin development showed an immense activity during this week.
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Jon wants to validate a form value but the validation depends on another form field.
As Jon does not know how to do it with symfony 1.1, he called the expert.
This post will explain how to accomplish this kind of conditional validation by using a post validator.
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Yesterday, I have committed the first slew of changes to the routing framework.
Thanks to this refactoring, developers have new opportunities to customize the routing and this will allow very cool features in the very near future. But today, let's dive into the goodness of the symfony 1.2 routing framework.
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As for every symfony version, we try to simplify the API and make it more intuitive and powerful.
Here are some examples that you will soon enjoy in symfony 1.2.
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