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Passing a boolean to the constructor of “Symfony\Component\Dotenv\Dotenv” is deprecated

You might encounter this deprecation message after your upgrade to symfony 5.1 in your symfony project:

Since symfony/dotenv 5.1: Passing a boolean to the constructor of “Symfony\Component\Dotenv\Dotenv” is deprecated, use “Dotenv::usePutenv()

To fix this, go to config/bootstrap.php and remove the false from the Dotenv constructor:
(new Dotenv(false))->loadEnv(dirname(DIR).'/.env');
to
(new Dotenv())->loadEnv(dirname(DIR).'/.env');
See: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/37195

Actually the file config/bootstrap.php has been removed from symfony 5.1 and was replaced in public/index.php.

But since the project was updated from an symfony 4 version the bootrap file is still present.

So another option would be to remove the boostrap file and update the project entirely to symfony 5.1 recipe.
This is not trivial though as you can see in this corresponfing PullRequest.

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Disable symfony deprecation warnings in PHPUnit tests

Symfony’s deprecation warnings while running tests is a great service to keep track with upcoming changes in newer symfony versions.
However these warnings can break your CI/CD pipeline and sometimes you cant fix all deprecation warnings immediatly.

To disable them you can set the ENV var
SYMFONY_DEPRECATIONS_HELPER=disabled
and the warnings will not be displayed anymore and CI/CD will pass again.
Update from comments:
SYMFONY_DEPRECATIONS_HELPER=weak does also work and will still show the deprecation warnings count. (Thx Max)

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Symfony and Angular: shared translations

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.
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Symfony Cache Component with SncRedisBundle

Since version 3.1 there is a Cache component with a PSR-6 implementation integrated in Symfony.
So we do not need to add a 3rd party lib as Doctrine Cache anymore when we need caching these days.

Doctrine Cache does the job but by implementing a standard the Symfony Cache seems to have another advantage besides its delievered anyway. So i checked it out.

Documentation is still a bit sparse and the best resource so far is this blogpost:
https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-3-1-cache-component

I wont go into detail on how you use the Cache but rather how you integrate it with Redis, which is my favourite Cache backend.
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[symfony 1.4] Class ‘sfLoader’ not found

Sollte man mal eine symfony 1.2.x Anwendung auf symfony 1.4.x migrieren und man stößt auf diesen Fehler:

Class 'sfLoader' not found

Dann hat man versucht einen Helper in der Action zu laden zB so:

sfLoader::loadHelpers('String');

Der sfLoader ist in 1.4 allerdings entfernt worden.
Stattdessen sollte man dann sowas schreiben:

$this->getContext()->getConfiguration()->loadHelpers('String');

Dann klappts.