Symfony

Soon after writing my previous blog, where I described a way to speed up the rendering of entity dropdowns, I received lots of feedback about better and nicer ways of doing this. All the suggestions where the same: use a custom form type and a ... [More] datatransformer.So I did for one entity, but I didn't feel like doing it for every entity. So I wrote a console command that allowed me to do this automatically (for one or all entities within a bundle).After a short discussion with my boss, we agreed [...] [Less]

Per default Symfony2 will store session information in its cache directory. Clearing the cache thus logs everyone out. A simple solution to this is moving where Symfony saves its sessions. We can do this by configuring the framework bundle via our ... [More] app/config/config.yml. framework: session: save_path: %kernel.root_dir%/var/sessions That one line save_path setting will redirect session data to app/var/sessions. Problem solved! If you are also using Capifony (and you should!) then remember to [...] [Less]

As Symfony (2.0) doc is not very clear on this subject, I spent some time to help a colleague on the following question : How to make HTTPS port different from 443 ? Of course it's possible, and this is a simple configuration option in app/config.yml : framework: ... # router configuration router: ... http_port: 81 https_port: 1443