A week of symfony #399 (18->24 August 2014)

This week, Symfony organized its second DX Hackday. This time developers focused not only on the Symfony core but also on the 30 mot useful bundles. Meanwhile, a new simpler option validation was proposed for the OptionsResolver component.

Symfony2 development highlights

2.3 changelog:

• 169b397, b96e7f9: [DomCrawler] check for the correct field type when using different form fields with the same name
• f825f5d: [Validator] return empty metadata collection if none do exist
• 31d48ab: [Form] ValueToDuplicatesTransformer accept "0" as value (fixed wrong return null syntax)
• 00aedfc: [DomCrawler] fixed the axes handling in a BC way
• f262b01: [Routing] fixed handling of nullable XML attributes
• ef23f02: [DoctrineBridge] fixed empty parameter logging in the DBAL logger

2.5 changelog:

• bb9552f: [FrameworkBundle] fixed validator factory definition when the Validator API is "auto" for PHP < 5.3.9
• 1eec2d6: [Validator] removed duplicate interface implementations

Master changelog:

• beca900: [HttpFoundation] MongoDbSessionHandler supports auto expiry via configurable expiry_field
• d405f43: [Validator] fixed Constraint class to not destroy custom groups upon serialization
• ce1d209: [Validator] added ConstraintViolation::getConstraint()

Newest issues and pull requests

• [OptionsResolver] Support simple option validation
• [intl] Support all locales by using CLDR data directly
• Email constraint does not pass the Strict argument into the EmailValidator library
• [FrameworkBundle] templating_php.xml is loaded even when php engine is not enabled
• [Form] PasswordType disable autocomplete by default?
• [ClassLoader] Make XcacheClassLoader implement __call()
• [Validator] Check post_max_size before validating
• [DX][DependencyInjection] Why MergeExtensionConfigurationPass restores original container params after extension configs merging?

They talked about us

• Integrate Varnish and Nginx into PHP applications with FOSHttpCache
• Scaling Symfony2 apps with RabbitMQ - Symfony UK Meetup
• Geocoding Postcodes with Symfony2
• SymfonyLive London 2014: Meet the speakers: Dave Marshall
• Master Symfony2 - part 3: Services
• Prepárate para el segundo DX Hackday de Symfony
• Symfony: Forget About Permission Settings
• Comment choisir son framework : view / layout – Symfony 2
• Symfony CMF 1.2 first release candidate
• The results are in: Community sponsors at SymfonyLive London 2014
• Decoupling in Symfony How to Pull out from Annotations
• Alternative Method to Tame Symfony/Doctrine Repositories
• Symfony2: Event subsystems
• What Symfony Has To Do With My Garage