A week of symfony #53 (31 december 2007 -> 6 january 2008)

New Year brings to symfony the same old frenetic development activity of the framework and its plugins. Symfony 1.1 continues polishing the new form mechanism and the CRUD generator has been refactored. Symfony reached this week another awesome milestone: its code quality is now assured by more than 7000 tests.

Development mailing list

• Issues about symfony 1.1 development and discussions about Moving towards 1.1 - Migrating Plugins

Development highlights

• r6857: [1.1] fixed calling tasks in a script with options
• r6859: [1.1] fixed cache:clear unit tests
• r6867: [1.1] added phpdoc + fixed coding standards
• r6870: [1.1] fixed environmental issues in tests
• r6873: [1.1] fixed foreign key bug when a column is not required
• r6875: [1.1] fixed special cases for sfValidatorDate
• r6882: [1.1] refactored crud generator to use the new form framework
  • merged propel:generate-crud propel:init-crud to a single propel:generate-crud task
  • added new options to the task: --generate-in-cache, --non-atomic-actions, --non-verbose-templates, --with-show
  • propel:generate-crud is fully functional tested (we have now 7000 tests, yeah...)
  • fixed command line tests
• r6933: [1.1] added configure:database task
• r6937: [1.1] renamed sfValidatorAll to sfValidatorAnd and sfValidatorAny to sfValidatorOr
• r6938, r6939, r6940, r6941: [1.1] refactored prove.php
• r6942: [1.1] replaced _pre_validator and _post_validator by setPreValidator() and setPostValidator() methods (update your forms accordingly)
• r6944: [1.1] added sfForm::setValidators() and sfForm::setWidgets()
• r6945: [1.1] added code tests for all validators
• r6946: [1.1] fixed date and time widget fill-in with invalid input values
• r6954: [1.1] allow schema validator to throw named validation errors (sfValidatorCompare has a new throw_global_error option (false by default), added some unit tests to sfValidatorSchemaForEach, errors from pre and post validators are merged into the current errors)
• r6963: [1.1] fixed form error merging with complex post validators
• r6965: [1.1] fixed propel generated forms when a table has several foreign/m2m keys to the same foreign table
• r6968: [1.1] added an arguments option to sfValidatorCallback
• r6973: [1.1] added short syntax for m2m relationships in fixtures (the old syntax is still supported, new syntax example)
• r6975: [1.1] changed behavior to be sure to have a 404 exception in debug mode and 404 page in production mode
• r6978: [1.1] added a configure:author task
• Updated dwhittle branch: fixed test for various environments (darwin, bsd, linux), removed open_basedir support for greater compatability (issues with cross platform env), refactored default locale to change with user culture, changed magic_quotes_gpc to magic_quotes_runtime, tweaked skeleton app + plugin
• ...and many other changes

Development digest: 136 changesets, 10 defects created, 12 defects closed, 7 enhancements created, 1 enhancement closed, 1 documentation defect created, 1 documentation defect closed and 29 documentation edits.

Book and documentation

• Created sfGuard plugin - extra documentacion (spanish) page
• Updated Installing Symfony on a shared host at 1and1 with PEAR, How To Generate I18N Files, Official Proposed Plugins, Optimization, How to install Symfony on Windows with WAMP, sfGuard plugin - extra documentation, CheatSheets, Symfony 1.1 events pages
• Started to update the first project tutorial for 1.1 (work in progress)
• Advances in italian, french, russian and deutsch translations of the book

Wiki

• New Job Postings:
  • Symfony Developer @ Streamsys - based in Brussels, Belgium - Contact: info [at] streamsys [dot] com
  • Symfony Developer @ Game Asset Trading - telecommute or work out of your office in Vancouver, Canada - Contact: jobs [at] gameassettrading [dot] com
• New developers for hire:
  • WaleUp: is a Manhattan based web development and interactive design firm specializing in complex Information Systems based on Symfony framework
  • Yelloweb: is a Midlands (UK) based company with wide experience using the wonderful symfony php framework.
  • Forma-Pro: web Development Company based in Ukraine that have been working in outsourcing for 7 years already.
• New symfony blogger:
  • Arthur Koziel (website, feed)

Plugins

• Renamed plugins
  • sfAccesibleFormPlugin to ddAccessibleFormPlugin
  • sfFacebookPlatformPlugin to ddFacebookPlatformPlugin
  • sfFirebugLitePlugin to ddFirebugLitePlugin
  • sfDimensionsPlugin to ysfDimensionsPlugin
  • sfCryptPlugin to dwCryptPlugin
  • sfPrototypeTooltipPlugin to dwPrototypeTooltipPlugin
  • sfPrototypeWindowPlugin to dwPrototypeWindowPlugin
  • sfSwfChartPlugin to dwSwfChartPlugin
  • sfJpGraphPlugin to dwJpgraphPlugin
  • sfOpenIDPlugin to ddOpenIDPlugin
  • sfHttpBLPlugin to z1HttpBLPlugin
  • sfYUINavigationTabsPlugin to ddYUINavigationTabsPlugin
  • sfPluginBuilderPlugin to cvPluginBuilderPlugin
• New plugins
  • sfSpyPlugin: allows you to watch, record, and playback what users of your symfony application do. You get to see exactly the same pages as the users see, either live (while users are connected to your application) or afterwards.
  • cvUrlMoverPlugin: allows a symfony application to maintain backwards-compatible and search-engine friendly URLs without the overhead of using sfRouting
  • cvLimeadePlugin: aids lime by adding a collection of tricks to reduce some of the more tedious tasks of unit testing, such as bootstraping and autoloading
• Updated plugins
  • sfExtjsThemePlugin: updated documentation, fix for setting url to related modules (pop-up-windows), fixed PK naming in JsonAutoCompletion, fixed table name check for field name when the real name of the table is different from the PhpName, new namespaces for list, edit and related javascript-namespaces, they are now related to ModuleNames, removed broken and not used method getFields from actions.class
  • sfDoctrinePlugin: updating to use the 1.1 branch of the templates
  • sfJobQueuePlugin: now addJob() returns the created job
  • sfLucenePlugin: refactored highlighting system (highlights XML-based data (XML, HTML, XHTML) using the DOM, lays architecture for true Zend query highlighting, customizable highlight markers, unit tests for all), improved highlighter error reporting, better entity support in XML-based highlighters
  • sfReCaptchaPlugin: released 1.0.3 version (updated the recaptcha-php-library to version 1.10)
  • sfYUIPlugin: updated yui 2.4.0 -> 2.4.1
  • dwSwfChartPlugin: released 1.0 version, renamed example module
  • dwPrototypeWindowPlugin: released 1.0 version
  • dwPrototypeTooltipPlugin: released 1.0 version
  • ysfDimensionsPlugin: released 1.0 version, added phpdoc
  • dwCryptPlugin: released 1.0 version, cleaned up phpdoc
  • dwJpgraphPlugin: released 1.0 (updated jpgraph to 2.3), fixed phpdoc, cleaned up
  • sfFormBuilderPlugin: added additional css
  • sfGuardDoctrinePlugin: added better message when you follow a link that is not valid
  • sfDoctrineAmazonS3Plugin: added PEAR
  • sfPropelActAsCommentableBehaviorPlugin: fixed bug when saving a comment from the admin panel, the author id was set to 0 even if the field was let empty
  • Updated documentation of sfOpenOfficePlugin, sfCaptchaPlugin
  • Deprecated sfSitePlugin, sfFPDFPlugin plugins

Some new symfony powered websites

• ShowOffDemo.com: on-line showcase and networking community for everyone around the globe to demonstrate and show-off your talents, passions, hobbies and pastimes
• NuestroPoder.com: social networking site, aiming to assist Latino/Hispanic community grow stronger
• SODIPRI: (french) products catalog (powered by ISICS.fr "home made" Symfony based CMS)
• bkdjombang.com: local government site in Jombang, East Java, Indonesia
• ajaxian.ir

They talked about us

• Tired of spam? Try dkAntispamPlugin
• El (pequeño) retraso de Symfony 1.1
• Manipulando campo do tipo blob com symfony (Parte 2-2)
• Arquivos YAML podem ter comandos PHP (YAML can contain php code)
• symfony cheat-sheet: Criteria/Criterion/RS
• Live User Testing with sfSpyPlugin
• Pruebas reales y automáticas con Symfony
• This is why PHP is better than ROR (for me)
• Smashing Magazine le da mala fama a Symfony
• Install symfony 1.1 beside symfony 1.0
• Symfony supera las 7000 pruebas unitarias y funcionales
• Setting up a Symfony project on Media Temple’s Grid Service, Part 2
• 在symfony中使用acts_as_nested_set
• sfReCaptchaPlugin 1.0.3