The symfony website is now powered by symfony 1.4

November 28, 2009 · Published by Avatar of Fabien Potencier Fabien Potencier

Today, I spent some time migrating some of my public websites to symfony 1.4. I wanted to validate both the stability of this new version, and also see how easy it was to upgrade to the first symfony version that does not have any support for deprecated stuff.

In a matter of hours, I have migrated to symfony 1.4 and deployed the following websites:

Of course, the most interesting website to migrate was the symfony website itself: first because it's a very old website, and then because it has a lot of features, and a somewhat "complex" database schema (the website uses Propel).

The symfony website started its life on symfony 0.4 more than four years ago, and has underwent several migrations since then. The last migration was months ago for symfony 1.2. So, you can imagine all the old code lying around. But to my own surprise, migrating it to symfony 1.4 was actually quite easy, probably because of the new project:validate task. It gives me the confidence to press to deploy button without too much fear.

The only "real" problem I had to resolve was the "demo" website for the old Ajax support we had in symfony 1.0. What to do with it? The answer was actually quite simple. I have just copied the JavaScript files from the Protoculous plugin and put the JavaScript helper to my lib/helper/ directory.

And I think that's something you can do if you find some code that cannot be easily migrated. Just copy the needed files under the lib/ and/or web/ directories of your project, and you are done. That way, you will have more time to plan a proper and complete migration.

If you start migrating your applications to symfony 1.3/1.4, please share your experience, and let us know any problem you might encounter, so that we can enhance both the migration guide and the project:validate task.

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Avatar of Robert Speer
Robert Speer said on Nov 28, 2009
"The forum is under maintenance. Sorry for the inconvenience."

;)
Avatar of Tony Piper
Tony Piper said on Nov 28, 2009
If you look at http://www.symfony-project.org/community, the dates are borked. Is there a compatibility problem? An extra test needed for the project:validate task?
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phidah said on Nov 29, 2009
I've updated a few projects to 1.4 and the biggest issue I found was the usage of array-like selectors in requests, for example $request->getParameter('filter[something]');

I couldn't find it in the deprecated descriptions, but I managed anyways (was before the validate task came around).
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Fabien said on Nov 29, 2009
@Robert: The forum is not done with symfony. The problem with the forum is not related to the migration to symfony 1.4.

@Tony: It's because the forum is offline, and so the task crashes. So, not related to the migration.

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