Symfony core development put the spotlight on tests and lime tool during this week. Furthermore, symfony components were heavily updated, specially dependency injection. Lastly, 11 new plugins were introduced.

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Development highlights

  • r19467: [1.3] fixed a warning in a test
  • r19468: [1.2, 1.3] fixed routing for PHP 5.3.0RC4
  • r19470: [1.3] fixed sfAutoloadAgain due to PHP 5.3.0 changes in the spl_autoload_functions() function
  • r19488: [lime] changed manual CLI arguments escaping by calls to escapeshellarg()
  • r19496: [lime] moved test files
  • r19498: [lime] made tests rely less on the directory they are in
  • r19518: [1.3] fixed unit tests that used exit() instead of return
  • r19521: [lime] added XML output support (JUnit compatible XML format)
  • r19522: [1.3] added --xml and --trace options to test:* tasks
  • r19529: [lime] updated LICENSE file
  • r19531: [1.3] removed usage of lime_output_color() in unit tests as it is now taken care of automatically by lime
  • r19543: [1.3] fixed sfMemcacheCache set() method
  • ...and many other changes

Symfony components

  • dependency injection:
    • r19545: added a way to change the base class of the dumped PHP classes
    • r19559: fixed Iterator bug + defined an order between services defined directly and the ones defined via a method
    • r19562: fixed two small typos
    • r19567: fixed parameter XML parsing for deep nested arrays
    • r19576: fixed sfServiceContainerBuilder iterator
    • r19581: changed configurator to allow the class to be defined as a parameter
    • r19582: allowed empty YAML file for service definitions, and simplified the YAML output when no parameter or service are defined
    • r19584: added some more PHPDoc to explain rules of inheritance in the loaders
    • r19586: added an exception when an ini file does not exist
    • r19587: refactored loader file classes
    • r19632: simplified sfServiceSimpleXMLElement class and made its behavior more like PHP
    • r19633: ensured that parameter keys are always lowercased + simplified XML parsing
    • r19634: fixed anonymous services support in XMLs
  • yaml:
    • r19550: removed lime_output_color() usage as it is not needed anymore
    • r19552: removed hardcoded list of tests to run
    • r19577, r19579: made prove.php output prettier and more robust
  • event dispatcher:
    • r19551: removed lime_output_color() usage as it is not needed anymore
    • r19553: removed hardcoded list of tests to run
    • r19578, r19580: made prove.php output prettier and more robust

Development digest: 201 changesets, 27 bugs reported, 11 bugs fixed, 10 enhancements suggested, 1 enhancement closed, 5 documentation defects reported, 7 documentation defects fixed, and 22 documentation edits.

Documentation

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Plugins

  • New plugins
    • sfZendMailPlugin: plugin based on swToolboxPlugin mail feature by Thomas Rabaix. The primary changes from his implementation are seperating the mail feature and switching to use autoload for the Zend libraries.
    • sfYamlSchemaPatcherPlugin: this task fixes some problems at reverse engineering (adds i18n entries at schema.yml if you have *_i18n tables, removes duplicate table entries if you use plugins with own tables like sfGuardPlugin)
    • sfLimeExtraPlugin: provides support to generate mock objects for Lime. It also offers other utilities that are convenient for testing.
    • sfTubePlugin: allows video upload using YouTube API.
    • jeDbCheckPlugin: framework to help you do sanity checks on your database.
    • sfPaymentPlugin: intends to bring a standard, flexible and maintainable solution for managing online payments using the symfony framework throughout a set of plugins.
    • csNavigationPlugin: a simple way to handle navigation in your applications.
    • sfCorreiosPlugin: calculates the brazilian freight value of an object and get the address from the zip code.
    • iogLinksAdminPlugin: manages a list of links listed into nested categories. It comes with an admin links manager and a frontend module.
    • wspNopastePlugin: provides a complete application of a so called "nopaste".
    • sfTwitterAuthPlugin: allows users to log in to your site with their twitter accounts without disclosing passwords to you, via Twitter's OpenAuth interface.
  • Updated plugins
    • ncPropelChangeLogBehaviorPlugin: now if there's no default context the I18N helper is not loaded
    • sfShibbolethPlugin: documented the Shibboleth.sso mod_rewrite issue
    • swDoctrineAssetsLibraryPlugin: create subdirectory translation fixed, fixed createFolderSuccess.php link_to_function error
    • sfUnobstrusiveWidgetPlugin: fixed callback in js_config option, fixed callback in swfupload transformer, added multiselect transformer for select many form widget, fixed multiselect transformer, added "input text many" widget transformer ajax search transformer, made jquery 'double_list' transformer compatible with jQuery UI, fixed warning in sfUoWidgetFormDate when no transformer sets, fixed double list CSS, make jquery 'asm' transformer compatible with jQuery UI
    • sfEasyGMapPlugin: enabled modification of the map type
    • mgI18nPlugin: fixed bugs
    • pkContextCMSPlugin: don't include the 'global' page in search results, search results have a good title now, added blog post slot padding, cleaned the helper a little bit, ability to suppress slot editing for a particular non-CMS page, documented procedure for adding more admin toolbar buttons
    • sfTwitterApiPlugin: refactored CURL adapter, implemented atom and json response, fixed typo in curl adapter class
    • sfFilebasePlugin: improved usablity in gallery view, working on IE compat
    • sfWidgetFormInputSWFUploadPlugin: added IE 8 compatibility, added support for onsubmit event
    • pkMediaCMSSlotsPlugin: still image and slideshow slots: never render an image smaller than it actually is, support for interval and arrows options, support for title and description options
    • pkMediaPlugin: never exceed actual image size
    • pkPersistentFileUploadPlugin: never render a preview image bigger than actual size, re-render the preview if a new image is supplied on a later pass
    • sfAssetsLibraryPlugin: refactorized to completely avoid dependance by sfCompat10
    • swToolboxPlugin: add a mandatory field format in the resetFormLabels, datagrid refactoring, swDatagrid class made abstract
    • sfCryptoCaptchaPlugin: fixed background image bug
    • sfLucenePlugin: added a sfLuceneCriteria::sanitize option
    • sfSympalPlugin: fixed issue with exception stopping page from rendering so it can't be edited anymore
    • sfMapFishPlugin: updated license
    • sfImageTransformPlugin: improved README documentation
    • csSEOToolkitPlugin: automatically validates the SEO toolbar using the specified auth method
    • csDoctrineSlideshowPlugin: changes partials in form to widgets
    • csDoctrineActAsAttachablePlugin: use sf_upload_dir in getUploadPath and fix space, changed routes to routing event, added module base files, code cleanup

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