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April 1, 2012April 7, 2012

[Symfony 2] composer.json for a assumed-stable symfony 2 distribution

This small composer.json file is used in a project i am working on atm, feel free to use it at own risk. I will provide non-periodical updates and hopefully soon a full upgrade to symfony 2.1.x including doctrine orm 2.2.x.

I still did not get the point regarding dependency resolution, so i simply “composed” the composer file by writing down my own requirements (“i want only the hottest, newest stuff!!”, then tracked down the error messages, removing them by explicetly writing down the missing dependencies by using the latest “dev-*” versions. After that i tried to run the project, which actually did not work, but selective downgrade of some of the bundles (framework, security-extra blahblah) finally did the job. Continue reading “[Symfony 2] composer.json for a assumed-stable symfony 2 distribution”

March 9, 2012March 9, 2012

run JavaScript code in PHP 5.3 with the v8js extension

…for some reason i needed to get t h i s to work before going to sleep.

I’m running OSX 10.7.3 with macports which usually does the job, but Google’s V8 Javascript Engine is not available as a port yet. Continue reading “run JavaScript code in PHP 5.3 with the v8js extension”

February 14, 2012March 29, 2021

modulo in Twig

Ever wondered how to use the modulo operator in twig, the template engine of symfony?

Actually its like in PHP:

{{ 11 % 7 }}

As described here

But i guess for most use cases modulus is used to check if a number is divisible by another number.
Therefore Twig has the very conveniant divisible by test function.

{% if loop.index is divisible by(3) %}

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January 30, 2012January 30, 2012

Silex and MongoDB simply

Using MongoDB in your Silex Project is quite easy.

I will show this with my Superleansilexplate and will integrate it there as an example.
Since i dont want to integrate MongoDB in Superleansilexplate it will just become an additional gist.

Given you have some smaller amount of data like a counter that needs to be stored or other loose coupled datasets, we simply speak to MongoDB “directly” and store the data via Doctrine MongoDB Abstraction Layer.
Since i presume the Data / Document Structure isnt that complex we dont use Doctrine MongoDB ODM (the Object Document Mapper).
If you want to use it instead, try this Silex Extensions.

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November 29, 2011November 29, 2011

Silex and the HTTP_CACHE

The HTTP_CACHE resp. the reverse proxy of Symfony is a pretty cool thing.
And as it is build-in Silex it can speed up the already fast micro framework massivly,
wich is good for me, as i am mainly workin with Silex right now.

To enable it you have to register it first like its shown in the docs:

 $app->register(new Silex\Provider\HttpCacheServiceProvider(), array(
 'http_cache.cache_dir' => __DIR__.'/cache/',
 ));

Also provide the writable cache dir.
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November 21, 2011May 5, 2014

Enable Twig-Extensions in Silex

UPDATE
Please have look here for a updated version.

Note: its about Twig-extensions not about the former “Silex Twig Extension”, this now called TwigServiceProvider.

First fetch the Twig-extensions code and put them in your vendor dir:

git submodule add git://github.com/fabpot/Twig-extensions.git vendor/Twig-extensions/fabpot
git submodule init
git submodule update

Then register the autoloader by using registerPrefixes:

$app['autoloader']->registerPrefixes(array(
    'Twig_Extensions_'  => array(__DIR__.'/../vendor/Twig-extensions/fabpot/lib')));

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November 16, 2011

Sending invalid Unicode via socket.io

Well you can try to, but it will end up almost probably in an disconnect which is caused by the browser.
As i have learned here.

Given you have a string which contains invalid unicode like:

This will trouble the browser and the socket connection.

If you prepare your json with PHP and json_encode the Unicode will be escaped to some strings like these:

\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude04\ud83d\ude04\ud83d\udc9c\ud83d\udc9c\ud83d\udc4a

But on clientside it will still result in invalid Unicode.
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November 4, 2011November 7, 2011

Silex Starter Stubs

There are several preconfigured Silex Apps on github. They let you start your Silex project in no time, which is good.
This makes Silex an even more simple rabbithole into the symfony2 world.

I started one myself and had a close look on the others, so i thought i share this.
They all differ a bit so you must choose what fits your needs the best.

They all follow some kind of “best practise” structure, some more, some less.

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October 19, 2011October 19, 2011

[Symfony 2][Twig] – Enabling (native) Twig Extensions

Twig Extensions is a tiny official repository for extensions to the Twig templating markup language, the default templating engine in each Symfony 2 (Standard Ed.) project. This short article shows how to purposeful enable them per-environment for your projects.

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