A week of symfony #208 (20->26 December 2010)

Form and Validation components were heavily updated this week, including the refactorization of code to a new Locale component and the implementation of new fields and constraints. In addition, Doctrine project published the first stable release of Doctrine 2.0.

Development mailing list

• [Symfony2] ParamConverter
• [Symfony2] Security Component: How to make my own firewall?
• [Symfony2] About the _view variable in Twig templates
• [Symfony2] functional tests that require login

Symfony2 development highlights

Changelog:

• 242be93: [Form] added proper error handling to FileField
• b8ef7e7: [Form] improved semantics of property paths and removed FieldGroup::merge() for now
• 7c557d0: [Form] made $data and $validator parameter in the constructor optional
• 78b6987: [Form] locale can now only be set statically before creating a form/field, otherwise we have too many problems updating a field's state when the locale is changed
• 9db7db4: [Form] implemented CountryField
• 93d3716: [Form] implemented LanguageField
• fdb7f84: [Locale, Form, Validator] refactored code to new Locale component, implemented Country constraint
• 993257a: [Validator] implemented Language constraint
• a059ec8: [Validator] implemented Image constraint
• 4f46235: [HttpFoundation] send proper charset along with the default text/html header
• cd64046: [Form] changed semantics of "always_empty" option in PasswordField
• df6ffbb: removed user provider name
• b57411b: renamed reloadUserByAccount() to loadUserByAccount()
• faac8e6: [TwigBundle] replaced the ifrole tag with a has_role function
• d935df0: [TwigBundle] removed unused tag and contenttag Twig tags
• 5d65f3e: [TwigBundle] converted path and url tags to functions
• d87c3c5: [FrameworkBundle] added config keys for PdoSessionStorage
• 5e94807: speed up url matching for route without variable
• a2105d4: slight compiler refactoring
• 094d428, 3d9b13f: unified equality comparisons, put var on the right side
• c54f6d8: fixed DoctrineMongoDBBundle to work with latest version of Doctrine
• 03d25cc: refactored creation of access decision manager to make use of newly added compiler passes
• 32aef96: [Routing] removed call to setDefaultAnnotationNamespace() so this can be configure on the injected reader
• 763ef35: [Routing] . added creation of a file resource in annotations loader

Documentation

• New IRC Logs 2010-12-16 page

New job postings

• Symfony/Doctrine/JQuery developer at Idael Software - full-time based in Yverdon, Switzerland - Contact: job [at] idael [dot] ch

New plugins

• rsGitExternals: manage git repositories within your symfony project. provides a simple task to handle gits.
• mpRealityAdmin: provides a new admin generator theme with some additions.

Updated plugins

• sfRADIUSAuth:
  • committed initial version of the plugin
  • RADIUS auth via MSCHAPv2 is working
• sfProjectAnalyser:
  • added an global option 'plugin_assets_path' to set the path of the plugin's assets (for custom project directory)
  • fixed typos
  • added a threshold for symfony extended class in order to avoid displaying all classes of a type (mainly for model classes)
  • moved the 'plugin_assets_path' to the config plugin section
  • implemented a return code for the main task so it can be used by a CI tool
  • fixed the class grouping algorithm
  • added a config option 'output' that allows to render the output as XML instead of HTML
  • added alert for $this->executeXXX code at action level
• sfDoctrineActAsTaggable:
  • tag markup and css cleanup for consistency between tag sidebars and tag widgets
• sfGuardExtra:
  • added opportunity to choose new password on reset
  • improved reset password form
• sfFormButtons:
  • updated helper to use jQuery helper for remote javascript functions
  • added sfJqueryReloadedPlugin as required dependency
  • increased package and API versions to reflect new dependencies and internal usage of jQueryHelper
  • added new functions to readme
• sfJqueryReloaded:
  • added Option to control caching of ajax requests
  • added 'stop_propagation' option for jq_remote_function, preventing events from bubbling
• idlErrorManagement:
  • added a new app.yml option to easily disable the recording
  • added a new method tryToLogError, that's try to log with symfony logger
  • fixed permissions on cache directories creation
  • removed try/catch in the plugin configuration section
  • fixed a bug in comment error action, prevent querying doctrine with invalid errorId

New symfony powered websites

• RE/MAX Paraíso: (Deutsch, English, Spanish, Dutch) Portal inmobiliario multiidioma

They talked about us

• Utilisation de l’event dispatcher depuis les classes du modèle
• Some layout changes for lyMediaManagerPlugin
• Using the Symfony2 console
• Rilasciato Doctrine 2.0
• Propel 1.6 Gets Versionable Behavior - With A Twist
• Symfony2 : créer un admin sécurisé
• Symfony2 ParamConverter's
• Sensio Labs annonce les conférences Symfony Live 2011
• Symfony 1.4 vs. sfGuardUserPlugin : understand credentials and permissions
• Symfony cheat sheets
• Creating an Online Store with Symfony – Part 2: Design
• Cadeau de noël pour les utilisateurs de VIM
• Formateo de fechas con symfony
• Générer une liste de checkbox pour un formulaire à partir d’une table (class) dans Symfony
• Symfonyでクリスマスまでに彼女を作る方法（1.4対応）
• Askeet. День четвёртый. Рефакторинг