Blue Horn Ltd

Susan Mofo is an author, a poet, and a health practitioner. And at the moment she is working to finish her first music CD! Susanmofo.com is a simple but effective website for Susan’s official online presence, to promote her book, CD, and physiotherapy.

Portfolios, Websites using Symfony PHP, Portfolios, symfony 1.2

I wanted a Symfony doctrine behavior / template to add a column that contains unique random string. I searched around but found nothing, so I developed these doctrine behavior / template for generating unique random string. Read more…

Symfony Framework doctrine, symfony 1.2

The following is a form formatter class I developed to automatically add stars * on required fields. Feel free to use it and let me know if it can be improved.

You might ask, why not just use setLabels?

Firstly, if you already set required fields to true/false in setValidators, why do you have to add the stars manually again in setLabels? It just doesn’t make sense!

Secondly, using setLabels to add stars is interfering with language translation.

Thirdly, this is I believe a proper (or proper-ish?) way to do this kind of things with sfForm.

Read more…

Symfony Framework PHP, symfony 1.2, Symfony Resources

I have not read a lot of articles on this but I did a quick Google search and found that all of the few articles I read seems to suggest redirect over forward. But I have a different opinion here, I would suggest that forward is better than redirect in most (if not all) cases. Read more…

Symfony Framework

Just found two nice comprehensive websites built using Symfony Framework: http://www.webdigs.com and http://www.sanus.com

Websites using Symfony

Symfonynerds’ 2009 Symfony Developers Survey Results is out! If you are a Symfony Developer and have not completed this survey, you could still do that, click here.

Most developers went straight from Symfony 1.0 to 1.2 and skipped 1.1

Propel is the dominant ORM framework, which is interesting in light of the recent announcement that Doctrine will be the default ORM framework in Symfony 1.3 and moving forward.

Ubuntu is by far the most popular platfrom Symfony developers choose to run their applications on

The question with the most evenly spread results is “How long have you been developing Symfony applications for” (see question 6). Indicating the community has a wide range of experience with lots of people under one year experience and many over two years experience.

Most Symfony developers have never developed in another web application framework

jQuery is by far the most popular library used with Symfony

Eclipse PDT is the most popular IDE for Symfony developers

No surprises here: Most Symfony developers are from Europe (which saddens us Aussies – we need more Aussie Symfony developers!)

There were no developers that took the survey indicated they run Symfony applications on Oracle and MSSQL. MySQL was the most popular database used by far.

In regards to location of Symfony developers, there are few of us here in New Zealand! Too bad the survey did not have option for New Zealand or South pacific. I can’t remember what I selected, could be Australia or Asia.

Symfony Framework

This is a step by step on how to implement email login (login using email instead of username) using Symfony 1.2, Propel, and sfGuardPlugin. If you use Symfony 1.0, or want to know some background story, read Implementing email login with sfGuardPlugin.

This article assumes you have installed sfGuardPlugin. Read more…

Symfony Framework

Symfony Deployment Cheat Sheet at symfony-check.org is a website with a very handy list of things to check for Symfony project in live server.

Go to the website for the details but here’s the summary of the handy list:

1. Customise the ‘Oops! Page Not Found” page
2. Customise the “Website Temporarily Unavailable”page
3. Customise the “Oops! An Error Occurred” page
4. Customise the “Login Required” page
5. Customise the “Credentials Required” page
6. Customise the “This Module is Unavailable” page
7. Add a favicon
8. Rename the session cookie
9. Check the configuration of the production server
10. Customise the language of your pages
11. Delete “/backend.php” from your uri
12. Install a PHP Accelerator
13. Log errors in the production environment
14. Customise rsync_exclude.txt
15. Escape your templates
16. Protect your forms
17. Redirect to the unavailable screen during the maintenance operations

Thank you for the list UI Studio (BTW UI Studio, you didn’t do item #7!) and happy deploying y’all :)

Symfony Framework

http://trac.symfony-project.org/wiki/ApplicationsDevelopedWithSymfony

Websites using Symfony

It seems like yet another New Zealand government’s websites is under fire, just after SPARC debate/controversy. This time it’s NZLive.com.

NZLive.com is a New Zealand government funded website for “connecting you with New Zealand culture – art, performance, music, books, film, festivals, heritage, sport, recreation and more.” (from NZLive about page).

Event Finder, a New Zealand privately-owned IT company, has claimed that government has been wasting tax payers money to try to implement features already are existing on Event Finder’s system. Event Finder set up a website dedicated to this called whynzlive.

There is a rather lengthy discussion at the New Zealand PHP User Group mailing list. And there is also a computer world article about this.

News government, new zealand