…dev, tech problems and solutions.
Disclaimer: No legal advice, just a little experience report.
If you sell digital things (services, digital goods etc.) to EU countries, you might have to calculate the VAT at the rate of the customer’s country (and even pay it there afterwards).
The latter is even the more inconvenient part, but at least the first part can be done quite easily with good old PHP.
One very cool feature of the Symfony Workflow Component is the ability to export workflows via graphviz.
Did you know you can also directly render those as PDF files?
Continue reading “Symfony Workflow Component: Dump workflows as PDF”
When documenting your API with Swagger/Swagger-UI, one really cool feature to use is the $ref syntax.
As Swagger documentation files tend to get real large und hard too read, splitting the config across multiple files might be a good idea.
With $ref you could do this quite easily.
Continue reading “Splitting Swagger API Documentation yaml files”
Angular for frontend with symfony delivering the data have become quite a common setup.
When working with this constellation you will sooner or later come across the i18n topic. Most likely you would want to share translations between front- and backend. So that you could keep translations in one single location while using it for frontend templates as well as server-side error messages etc.
One approach would be to store translations in the symfony yml or xml files and deliver those to the frontend via an api endpoint.
Given that front- and backend-code run on the same server, there is an even simpler solution.
Continue reading “Symfony and Angular: shared translations”
I recently started to do all PHP development with docker, since I was just tired of installing tons of dev libraries on my machine. Most of which i couldn’t even remember what they actually were good for.
When I first tried docker (docker-toolbox for mac) I was really disappointed how slow symfony apps ran inside the container. Continue reading “Symfony development with docker on a mac”
There this really useful tool for JS, called RegExpBuilder.
It enables you to build regular expressions with a nice human-readable & chainable syntax.
(read more about it here and here)
As it’s not that much lines of code, I decided to do a port for PHP – et voila:
https://github.com/gherkins/regexpbuilderphp
Continue reading “RegExpBuilderPHP – PHP Regular Expression Builder”
I have often missed the
Doctrine_Inflector::urlize()
method from Doctrine1 in Symfony2 with Doctrine2.
Of course there’s the doctrine extensions with the sluggable behaviour, but sometimes it seems a bit overhead for smaller tasks.
I just recently discovered Behat Transliterator, which brings just the dearly missed urlize function back.
In a recent website-project i had a WordPress Blog running next to the main CMS Silverstripe, handling the Blog-part of the site.
Integrating the Blog in Silverstripe (which indeed would have made things simpler) was not an option at the time. The usage of loads of WordPress plugins would’ve made a rewrite a major task, which was out of the budget.
The blog was integrated in the same page layout as the rest of the website. So ideally it would at least share the same Templates for header, footer etc. and would integrate the sites navigation built by Silverstripe.
But how to use the pre-rendered Silverstripe template .ss files in a WordPress theme?
The following worked fine for me, using Silverstripe 3.0:
Continue reading “Using Silverstripe Templates outside Silverstripe”
Since the Silverstripe-Developer Bookmarklets on ssbits.com are great,
i thought it would be even better to have them as a editable/extendable collection:
So here are some more as a JSFiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/HMkad/2/embedded/result/ Continue reading “more Silverstripe bookmarklets”
This is a little bookmarklet generator i put together this morning:
http://jsfiddle.net/QMeuV/1/embedded/result/ Continue reading “JSfiddle Bookmarklet Generator with jQuery & Codemirror”