Sending Mail from a Task, Symfony 1.4; Fatal error: Class ‘Swift_Message’ not found

Uncategorized 22 February 2010 | Comments

While trying to build and send a fairly complicated e-mail using a template from within a task. Unfortunately that resulted in a fairly nasty (and annoying) bug with Symfony’s autoloader:

Fatal error: Class ‘Swift_Message’ not found in apps/lib/email/DomainReportMessage.class.php on line 3

The format of the test files were extremely simple:

class DomainReportMessage extends Swift_Message {
/* Basic code to [...]

Rackspace CloudSites Review

Business 19 November 2009 | Comments

I’m investigating using Rackspace CloudSites as a replacement for 90% of my, and my client’s hosting needs. This may come as a disappointment to some, but I’m finding myself out of time for this sort of work. The clients I began migrating to the CloudSites service were experiencing repeated issues with their service.
Until my clients’ [...]

Validate a Domain is Valid and Exists, Symfony 1.2

Programming, symfony 27 October 2009 | Comments

When a good portion of my day is spent working with validating, parsing, and analyzing URLs – I find that I’ve written a small set of tools to ensure consistency, clean, and sane URLs. After an overhaul on a settings page – I had to integrate much of this into a simple (to the viewer, [...]

Modifying Form Elements in Symfony 1.2

Programming, symfony 15 October 2009 | Comments

As I found in recent development of an app, I needed to change one of Symfony’s form on the fly (more specifically, I needed to change a drop-down, sfWidgetFormSelect). After some looking, there wasn’t much documentation on this that I could find. My final solution was easy enough:
<?php
$form = new SomeFancyForm();
$new_choices = array(‘Selection 1′, ‘Selection [...]

Forcing Login Success Page, Symfony 1.2 + sfGuard

Programming 28 September 2009 | Comments

Working on my latest project, we needed to force a specific page to be sent to after login. After quite a bit of searching, I went to the most logical location for this information: The README. Duh. sfGuardPlugin v. 3.1.3 README Unfortunately, Symfony’s documentation is notoriously sketchy, however this is verifiably functional.
Add the following to [...]