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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
At work recently, I was tasked to create a system that ranked items in a database, from least to greatest based on time. Originally I was quite blinded by the original code, which had used three nested queries, and a dozen variables of impenetrable names, a set of code I won’t be posting. Now, [...]
Forcing SSL on certain modules and actions used to be pretty simple with Symfony’s sfSslRequirementPlugin, however since Symfony 1.2 came out – it isn’t necessarily compatible. I took a look around the internet for options, however I was rather unsatisfied with the options. Because I need to be able to secure modules and actions, I [...]
