Setting up sfPDOSessionStorage is a fairly simple matter to make sure that sessions exist on a setup with multiple web-heads. Add the following code to your app//config/factories.yml file: all: storage: class: sfPDOSessionStorage param: db_table: session # table storing the sessions database: propel # database connection to use # Optional parameters db_id_col: sess_id # column storing [...]
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 = [...]
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 [...]
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, this [...]