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Javier Eguiluz
3 months ago
A week of symfony

Symfony 1.1 development continues with more than 130 changesets and the last refactorizations before its fourth beta. During this week symfony-related blogging and plugin development activity have also been remarkable.

Development mailing list

Discussions about Propel, i18n and performace and customizing propel code generator

Development highlights

r8444, r8445: [1.0, 1.1] fixed web debug toolbar in safari
r8450: [1.1] fixed plugin loading (they were required once, but must be required as we can have several applications in the same script and because it is the way symfony 1.0 deal with plugin initialization)
r8451: [1.1] added confirm option to link_to_function
r8452: [1.1] added help message to i18n:find + added layouts as templates to look for i18n strings
r8453: [1.1] added logic to i18n:find to also find strings in PHP code
r8454: [1.1] added an error message when a request throws an unexpected exception
r8460: [1.1] cleanup format functional tests to have a better example on how to customize them
r8462: [1.1] added isUserCulture() and isRequestFormat() method to sfTestBrowser
r8463: [1.1] fixed form translation when not using i18n with an object as a parameter
r8464: [1.1] fixed exception problem when an exception occurs when parsing a URL
r8465: [1.1] fixed stuff so that you can have 2 different configuration in one single script
r8480: [1.0] removed array casting to be 5.0 compatible
r8481: [1.1] cli.php does not send the system status code
r8483: [1.1] added some helpers to ease the use of dynamic javascripts and stylesheets (actions with a sf_format of sf or css)
r8484: [1.1] fixed form generation when a primary/foreign keys is a string
r8485: [1.1] changed the sfFormField::renderRow() signature to be able to add HTML attributes, change the label and the help message
r8489: [1.1] fixed embedded mapping in sequence bug in YAML parser
r8491: [1.1] simplified configuration management in tasks
r8495: [1.1] fixed sfTestBrowser doesn't play nicely when it is instantiated more than once in one test
r8497: [1.1] fixed content_type setting in view.yml is ignored
r8506: [1.1] fixed MySQL session storage
r8508: [1.1] changed form field name to only use PHP names (converted to the underscore notation) instead of column names
r8512: [1.1] forced all generated for classes to be under form/ even when the Propel schema package is not lib.model
r8513: [1.1] renamed sfGenerateTaskTask option names
r8514: [1.1] added validation for application/module/task names
r8525: [1.1] added a new validated_file_class option to sfValidatorFile
r8532: [1.1] added support for multi-array keys in sf*ParameterHolder::remove
r8535: [1.1] fixed file upload when used with a Propel form (added functional tests)
r8537: [1.1] added sfWebRequest ::getGetParameter() ::getPostParameter() and ::getUrlParmaeter() methods
r8550: [1.1] added a sfApplicationConfiguration::activate() method to pop/push sfConfig values when changing context
r8557: [1.1] fixed genUrl() to always take sf_relative_url_root setting into account when building a URL
r8562: [1.1] optimized sfCoreAutoload to not use dirname() for each included class
Updated dwhittle branch: removed sfCompatPlugin config_handlers.yml, changed sfLogger ::ERROR to ::ERR and ::CRITICAL to ::CRIT (to be pear / 1.1 compliant)
...and many other changes

Development digest: 135 changesets, 36 defects created, 44 defects closed, 9 enhancements created, 8 enhancements closed, 3 documentation defects created, 2 documentation defects closed and 18 documentation edits.

Book and documentation

Created Propel and I18n, Improve performace page
Updated VimPlugin, Il mio primo progetto con Symfony, Web Hosts available for Symfony Web Sites, How to use DB Designer 4 to create your schema.xml, Installation Symfony General pages
Advances in polish, dutch, french and deutsch translations of the book

Wiki

New Job Postings:
- Symfony Developer (with knowledge in MySQL, OOP Design Patterns, XML, Ajax and other Web 2.0 technologies) @ saveNtrust GmbH - full-time based in Mönchengladbach, Germany - Contact: ml [at] sntt [dot] de
- Web Developer / Applications Systems Analyst @ Keystone Energy Partners - Job Specification [PDF]
- Freelance Symfony Developer @ MSDS - telecommute is ok, onsite is preferred in New York, NY, USA - Contact: freelance [at] ms-ds [dot] com

Plugins

New plugins
- sfPropelSearchPlugin: integrates Propel and sfSearch for indexing of Propel models (Propel 1.2 only, but 1.3 coming)
- nahoPropelOptimizerPlugin: applies optimizations and bugfixes to the Propel generated classes
- mwOpenFlashChartPlugin: flash chart generation using the LGPL Open Flash Chart Library
Updated plugins
- sfSearchPlugin: fixed some type-os + minor cleanup, implemented task system (symfony search:rebuild, symfony search:optimize, symfony search:describe), implemented primitive search module, reorganized generator.yml syntax and added check for xfForm, implemented pager, added xfRetortRoute, added xfIndexManager (simple mechanism to make indices singletons), finished implementing basic search interface
- sfPropelActAsTaggableBehaviorPlugin: added "separator" option in the tag_list helper, fixes bug in taglist separator, improved preloadTags() performance
- sfLucenePlugin: prepared sfLucene for sfSearch's task system, config.php file added to configure include_path, ->describe() method added to engine to dump useful information, added "nb_common_tags" option in getTaggings() that permit to find objects tagged with a certain number of tags within a set of tags, updated prefix for special meta fields for internal use, added xfLuceneEnhancedFilesystem to by-pass Zend_Search_Lucene permission limitations
- sfSuperCachePlugin: fixed a fatal error in clear-cache handler, clear super cache only if configured
- sfAdvancedAdminGeneratorPlugin: added support for sorting on foreign key
- sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin: updated character replacement map for cleaner slugs
- sfContactFormPlugin: updated documentation
- sfPropel13Plugin: removed the revision freeze for the svn:externals to Propel 1.3 which breaks things
- sfDynamicCMSPlugin: improved documentation about routing & url
- sfExtjsThemePlugin: fix for tinyMCE-field allowing to not have a statusbar, added ajax-powered edit-buttons/actions, temporary fix to find id by setting it in the form as parameter 'key'
- sfDoctrinePlugin: create fixtures directory if it doesn't exist and a no filename was provided, upgrading svn external to Doctrine 0.11 branch
- sfPropelFinderPlugin: fixed problem in a particular join case
- ckWebServicePlugin: corrected mistake in README the task name is wsdl-build not build-wsdl
- sfErrorLoggerPlugin: fixed package file for 1.1,
- sfExtjs2Plugin: added Ext.form.Hidden

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