A week of symfony #51 (17->23 december 2007)

During this week, first symfony code sprint took place, with record-breaking activity culminated in the release of symfony 1.0.10. Meanwhile, symfony 1.1 development continues with lots of dependencies removal in its own new branch.

Development mailing list

• Discussions about xmi2symfony: tool to convert UML models to code skeletons and table widget

Development highlights

• r6548: created 1.1 branch
• r6550: [trunk] fixed method signature
• r6553: created 1.1 doc branch
• r6589, r6592: [trunk, 1.1] fixing web debug toolbar to handle relative paths
• r6606: [1.1] replaced parameterHolder->get() by getParameter()
• r6607: [1.0] fixed incorrect use of sfConfigCache:checkConfig(..., true) (closes #2123)
• r6608: [1.1] added sfForm::getValue()
• r6609: [1.1] removed sf_timeout setting, added timeout parameter to sfBasicSecurityUser
• r6612: [1.1] sfBrowser: allow file uploads in sfBrowser/functional tests
• r6614: [1.0] fixed magic_quotes_gpc() handling in sfRouting (closes #1801)
• r6617: [1.1] Fix #2605 and #2606 (use of sfConfig instead of fixed paths)
• Milestone 1.0.10 completed
• r6641: [1.1] base skeleton for plugins
• r6645: [1.1] removed propel inline includes for better performance (closes #2376)
• r6649, r6650: [1.0, 1.1] fixed value for 'Content-Type' HTTP meta header is repeated (closes #2557)
• r6658: [1.1] added the possibility to disable user session timeout by setting timeout to false
• r6660: [1.1] removed sfConfig dependency for the user sub-framework
• r6661: [1.1] removed sfConfig dependency for the routing sub-framework
• r6662: [1.1] moved 404 management from response to controller, removed sfConfig dependency from response sub-framework
• r6663: [1.1] removed parameter holder dependency for routing
• r6684: [1.1] refactored sfI18N class (added unit tests for sfI18N, removed sfContext dependency, made culture parameter optional for all methods)
• Updated dwhittle branch
• ...and many other changes

Development digest: 157 changesets, 26 defects created, 35 defects closed, 4 enhancements created, 13 enhancement closed, 7 documentation defects created, 6 documentation defects closed and 14 documentation edits.

Book and documentation

• Created Sprint20071220, Symfony11Documentation pages
• Updated CodingStandards, Installing Symfony Bundle into TextMate, symfony 1.1 core classes, symfony 1.1 events, Symfony Mac Os X Intel, Optimizing Your Application pages
• Updated french translation of Askeet tutorial

Wiki

• New Job Postings:
  • Symfony Developer @ Hiteg HaiNan - part time job based in HaiKou, HaiNan, China - Contact: info [at] hiteg [dot] com
  • Symfony Developer @ ISICS.fr - full-time based in Charleville-Mézières, France - Contact: contact [at] isics [dot] fr
• New developers for hire:
  • Jérôme Texier (jerome.texier@gmail.com): independent 100% Symfony developer. I've been working for 8 years as web developer and project manager on LAMP applications. I speak French (native language), English and Spanish (fluent). I'm currently based on Paris, France but I'm very flexible and experienced with remote working.
  • Frames4Technology: we are a software company specialized in open-source development and based in The Netherlands. Our main focus is PHP5 enterprise development based mainly on the the Symfony framework.
• New symfony blogger:
  • Symfony-Zone (website, feed)

Plugins

• New plugins
  • sfCompressWebFilesPlugin: provides tasks for compressing CSS & JavaScript files (not bundle) with YUI Compressor
• Updated plugins
  • sfLucenePlugin: fixed category support, created 1.1 branch (and documentation for symfony 1.1), fixed paging to use new form system, added delete_lock feature to indexers to decrease indexing time 5-fold on new indexes, fixed added number highlighter, fixed ->setMessageSourceDir() has been renamed to ->setMessageSource(), updated README system requirements, fixed sfLucene does not handle changed categories, added ->addProximity() for geo-searching in sfLuceneCriteria, added custom scoring algorithm support to sfLuceneCriteria, full unit-test coverage for class sfLucene
  • sfExtjs2Plugin: fixed quote logic, improved handling of recursive arrays, added handling of boolean values, added sf_extjs2_comment, added logic for anonymousClass, added method asVar, added Ext.Toolbar.Fill, added method asListener
  • sfAjaxUploaderPlugin: released 0.2.1 version
  • sfAjaxWebDebugPlugin: released 0.2.1 version
  • sfAmChartsPlugin: released 1.0.1 version
  • sfTarBallPlugin: released 0.1.1 version
  • csOopCalendarPlugin: update objects, added new stuff (still not usable)
  • sfPropelActAsTaggableBehaviorPlugin: added test "a tag can contain a quote"
  • sfExtjsThemePlugin: the edit-view can be split up into several tab-pages, progress on actions template for multiple pages
  • sfPropelActAsCommentableBehaviorPlugin: made configuration class variables protected instead of private
  • sfFormBuilderPlugin: few fixes
  • sfFacebookPlatformPlugin: added a script to create PEAR packages for the plugin, released 1.0.0 version
  • sfHamlViewPlugin: creating a branch for making the plugin work with symfony 1.1
  • sfDoctrinePlugin: fixes for Doctrine tickets #678, #653
  • sfN1IterationPlugin: released 0.1.2 version
  • sfFeed2Plugin: symfony coding practices (closes #2657), updated changelog
  • sfSimpleForumPlugin: incorrect use of a block element inside a inline element (closes #2628)

Some new symfony powered websites

If you have built a major website with symfony you're proud of, and want to share your experience, please consider writing a case study for the upcoming symfony-project.com website.

• Crema: (finnish) online store selling coffee machines and accessories
• FindIT.com.pl: (polish) a polish job portal for IT specjalists
• Buxr.com: shop & save, share & earn with Buxr hot deals site and the widget
• noorden.com: website used for testing of MVC frameworks

They talked about us

• 7 Days of Symfony1.1 – Forms, Widgets and Validators (Day3)
• Symfony 1.1 ya tiene su propia branch
• 7 Days of Symfony1.1 - Forms, Widgets and Validators (Day4)
• 7 Days of Symfony1.1 - Forms, Widgets and Validators (Day5)
• Mañana es el primer “code sprint” de Symfony
• Comienza el “code sprint” 2007 de Symfony
• Mi nuevo plugin: sfCompressWebFiles
• 1st symfony coding sprint
• sfForms: The Missing Component
• Symfony 1.0.10
• 7 Days of Symfony1.1 - Forms, Widgets and Validators (Day6)
• Symfony 1.1: Form helpers are deprecated
• Optimizando Consultas en el modelo. Segunda Parte
• Symfony applications on CD-ROM
• Developing Symfony with Eclipse
• Installing Symfony 1.1 svn beside 1.0 stable
• xmi2symfony 0.1: convert UML models to code skeletons for the symfony framework
• PHP is not the best thing in the world
• Una semana con Symfony #23 (10 - 16 diciembre 2007)
• Maintenant que nous commençons à connaître symfony
• Symfony et Validator (suite et fin)