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Symfony 2 Conference Hub at the Castle
When the Symfony Live Online conference was first announced, Brandon came up with the great idea to get the entire Nashville Symfony/PHP community to watch it together at centresource. “It’ll be an amazing gathering of nerds the likes of which have never been seen!” he says.
Well, Sensio decided to steal our thunder by suggesting Symfony 2 Conference Hubs a few days later. Hey Sensio, we still take credit for the idea. We thought of it first. And now that’s off my chest, the sales pitch:
Code That Saves The Day: Symfony Admin Generator
Every day at CentreSource brings with it a new challenge. With every challenge comes the opportunity to try a unique approach. We all know sailing the interweb can be stormy at best. But if you keep your eyes open, you will find code that can be a lighthouse to your sinking ship. Today’s Code that Saves the Day™: The Symfony Admin Generator!
Nashville Symfony Users Group - Extending Symfony Routing and More!
On Thursday, the Nashville Symfony Users Group met in the Centresource conference room to discuss the extension of the Symfony routing framework. I lead the talk, but it did not take long for the presentation to become a round table discussion, with everyone contributing their own thoughts and snippets of Symfony wisdom. Overall, the session was a lot of fun. You can view the slideshow from the presentation here.
Doctrine 2.0 was also discussed. We are hoping for a more complete presentation from Jon Wage next month. Keep your fingers crossed!
Symfony Faux Form Serialization
Recently, I ran into an issue when building a Symfony plugin for Slideshow renderings. When I added the support for multiple libraries, in this case Google Slideshow2 and JQuery Cycle, they had drastically different configuration options. JQuery Cycle allows you to use a list of effects, such as blindX and blindY. These effects are great, and I want the end user to be able to easily select between them. Google Slideshow2 allows the adding of thumbnails and traversing controls. Neither of these settings apply to the other, and this is only two slideshow renderers. What happens when I add another one? Five more? I could create multiple tables for each renderer, such as google_slideshow2_options and jquery_cycle_options. I could also just provide a textarea for key-value pairs (effect=blindX timeout=500) that the user typed in. I did not like either of these options, as the former struck me as over-architecting, and the latter as unusable.
Centresource Releases New Plugins to the Symfony Community
Over the last week, the developers here at CentreSource have published nine plugins for the symfony community. The plugins have been used in several of our internal projects and client web applications, but have been developed on a private repository. We finally decided the plugins were properly documented and tested. These plugins can be found here.
1) csDoctrineActAsAttachablePlugin - associates various uploads with multiple models, and includes an AJAX uploading client interface.
2) csDoctrineActAsCategorizablePlugin - associates models into nestable categories and category groups.
3) csDoctrineActAsGeolocatablePlugin - integrate your model with the Google Maps API to pull in geocodes based on record fields. Supports radius and proximity searches.