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YAML in symfony 1.1
Here is a short tutorial about my discovery of the new YAML parsing library that comes with symfony 1.1.
June 19, 2008 · Published in #TutorialsGetting started with Doctrine and symfony 1.1
So, you want to give Doctrine a try with symfony 1.1 eh?
June 16, 2008 · Published in #TutorialsBatches are dead, long life to tasks!
As any web application, your project has repetitive maintenance tasks, database operations, or other console scripts running on a regular basis. Symfony 1.1 extends symfony 1.0 pake tasks to create a powerful and uniform command line utility for your projects, fully integrated with the symfony Command Line Interface (CLI).
June 14, 2008 · Published in #TutorialsInternationalize your Propel Forms
It has never been so easy to internationalize your Propel forms. In this post, you will learn how to leverage the new form framework bundled with symfony 1.1 to develop an interface to edit articles in several languages.
June 12, 2008 · Published in #TutorialsHow to send emails in symfony 1.1
Sending mails is a web developer's everyday task, and many questions came about the way to do it in symfony 1.1. This article, along with a new cookbook entry dedicated to the subject, goes through the process of sending an email using the great Swift Mailer library.
June 10, 2008 · Published in #TutorialsHow to create an optimized version of your website for the iPhone in symfony 1.1
symfony 1.1 introduces native support for different formats and mime-types. This means that the same model and controller can have different templates based on the requested format.
June 9, 2008 · Published in #TutorialsHow to customize the directory structure in symfony 1.1
Sometimes you need to be able to customize the directory structure provided by symfony. In this post, we will see how to leverage the new configuration system of symfony 1.1 to change the web root, cache, and log directories.
June 9, 2008 · Published in #TutorialsHow do I use Propel 1.3 in symfony 1.1?
Starting with symfony 1.1, it is now possible to easily use Propel 1.3 in your project to take advantage of its speed improvements, nested set implementation, object instance pooling, among others. Most importantly, Propel 1.3 uses PDO instead of Creole as the DBAL, offering a significant performance boost.
May 30, 2008 · Published in #TutorialsCLI reference added
If you don't know the symfony CLI tasks by heart yet, this may prove useful.
March 29, 2006 · Published in #TutorialsNew tutorial : Sortable lists
Regular or AJAX, sortable lists are easy to implement if you extend the model properly.
March 24, 2006 · Published in #Tutorials