Here it is: https://github.com/alexfilatov/sfMelodyPlugin

Notes:

key: anonymoussecret: anonymous

key: anonymous and secret: anonymous – just for development purposes. In production you need to register your domain in Google.

feed.author.0.name.

This is how Google sends contacts data back. You can dump the contacts data response in https://github.com/gimler/sfOAuthPlugin (file sfOauth1.class.php, line 271)

But since my HDD has crashed and I needed to re-install all software on my Ubuntu box I decided to make a script with all commands from that article, please grab it here install_ffmpeg.sh.tar.gz

After download run these commands:

tar -xzf install_ffmpeg.sh.tar.gz
sh install_ffmpeg.sh

There is a better way on Ubuntu to do so:

ssh-copy-id alex@192.168.0.103

Enjoy!

sudo apt-get install php5 apache2 mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

that’s all

$ git svn clone http://svn.symfony-project.com/branches/1.4  lib/vendor/symfony-1.4

$ git svn rebase

$ git clone git://git-sue.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-sue/git-sue  lib/vendor/git-sue
$ cd lib/vendor/symfony-1.4
$ ../git-sue/git-svn-update-externals

$ lib/vendor/symfony-1.4/data/bin/symfony -V

PHP Fatal error:  require(): Failed opening required '/home/alex/projects/php-projects/sfprojects/project/lib/vendor/symfony/lib/event_dispatcher/sfEventDispatcher.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home/alex/projects/php-projects/sfprojects/project/lib/vendor/symfony/lib/autoload/sfCoreAutoload.class.php on line 99

$ ../git-sue/git-svn-update-externals

$ lib/vendor/symfony-1.4/data/bin/symfony generate:project {project_name}

register_shutdown_function(create_function('', 'touch("cache/.ignore");
touch("log/.cache");'));

$ ./symfony generate:app {app_name}

$ git init
$ git config user.name {real_name}
$ git config user.email {email_address}
$ # git config user.signingkey {gpg_key}
$ # git remote add origin {repo_url}

~
cache/*
!cache/.ignore
log/*
!log/.ignore

$ touch cache/.ignore log/.ignore

$ git add .
$ git commit -a -m 'Initial commit.'
$ # git push origin master

The error appeared was like: “Unable to return ‘affix’ for unknown CreoleType”

This is Creole issue – it cannot accept LONGVARCHAR and TEXT fields from Symfony schema.

To fix this  please change text constant in CreoleTypes.php file (line 39 in my Creole version).

const TEXT = 30; //php 5.3.0 fix, using an unused int

This is not good solution but you need to build your model somehow. As temporary solution this is OK but we need to wait bugfix from Creole developers.

Imagine Star Wars refined with this technology?

read article on techcrunch

Just got an invitation to hi5 social network and accepted it.

After that I decided to find which of my friends are already there and imported all contacts from GMail address book.

Threre were more than 500 contacts but only 30 were already registered in hi5.

And, the worst news, ALL of them were checked! This is unfair because there no any possibility to uncheck them all.

To uncheck them all you need to do the following steps (assume that you use Firefox with Firebug addon):

1. Select “manually send invitations” (instead of automatically sending) and you’ll see the list of all your contacts.

2. Take a look in hi5 html page source code and and make sure they are using JQuery there.

3. Open console in Firebug and execute the following code:

$("INPUT[type='checkbox']").attr('checked', false)

All checkboxes became unchecked.

4. Manually check all necessary contacts and press submit.

This is minus for hi5 developers – there MUST be a possibility to uncheck all contacts!

Playing with pretty nice PHP search engine Zend Lucene in Symfony as a sfLucenePlugin

If you’re building a website in UTF-8 (all stuff: db, html, etc) you proabably can get the following PHP Notice:

Notice: iconv() [function.iconv]: Detected an illegal character in input string in ... pluginssfLucenePluginlibvendorZendSearchLuceneAnalysisAnalyzerCommonTextNum.php on line 56

This is caused by lack of information in the installation guide of the sfLucenePlugin.

Few minutes of Google-ing could brought you the following:

try to add in config/search.yml:

  index:
    analyzer: utf8

This line solved this problem for me, hope for you too.

For me this is new world but it smells like Symfony sometimes – almost the same approaches with domain (Symfony: model) management, CRUD generator (Symfony: Admin generator) here excites as much as in Symfony.

“Leaving” PHP world for Groovy-Grails-Java was quite hard on start and I still stuck in researches. But I have smart enough guru in the stretched hand distance, please let me introduce Alex, The Grails Guru.

If you are Symfony developer you’d love this framework. You’ll see there similar things you’ve used to use in Symfony:

• mvc: domain classes + controller classes + view in GSP pages
• routing: you can define any route rule in a special routing construction
• configuration: there no any YAML configuration files but .properties files instead
• partials: are also present in Grails like includes
• and so on, I can’t remember on a spot. I’ll be adding this list with new features.

BUT started developing Grails applications you’ll get all Java development advantages:

• Continuous integration development
• Maven 2, dependencies management (management of so many libraries becomes easiest task)
• Reliable, useful  and fast IDE IntelliJ IDEA (you can try it for 30 days)
• Professional TDD (saying the truth, not all PHP developers using it, but in Java world things become better)

On other hand you can try work with Grails on Ubuntu Linux, it is faster then Windows machines.

I’ll be posting my achievements and research results here while learning this amazing tool.