I’d like to share with this pretty simple script with you, hope it will save you few minutes.

You guys who familiar with this Symfony plugin for assets management probably know that it uses sfThumbnail plugin for making thumbnails of image assets.
sfThumbnail has configuration in app.yml and it looks like:

all:
  sfAssetsLibrary:
    upload_dir:       media                  # Asset library root, under the web/ dir
    check_type:       false                  # Set to true if you want to restrict the type of assets
    types:            ['image']  # Accepted asset types if check_type is true
    thumbnail_dir:    thumbnail              # Where the image thumbnails are stored
    use_ImageMagick:  false                  # Set to true if you have the convert command
    thumbnails:                              # Name and size (in pixels) of the thumbnails created at upload
      tiny:                                 # Displayed in the list page
        width: 70
        height: 70
      small:                                 # Displayed in the list page
        width: 100
        height: 100
        shave: false                          # Cut strips to constraint the image size
      middle:
        width: 200
        height: 200
      large:                                 # Displayed in the details page
        width: 450
        height: 450
      original:                                 # Displayed in the details page
        width: 800
        height: 800
    search_pager_size: 20                    # Number of resuts per page
    mass_upload_size:  5                     # Number of file upload controls displayed in the mass upload form

This is cool but when you have your project up and running and decided to add new type of thumbnail (for instance name it ‘big’)

      big:
        width: 400
        height: 400

“This is simple science” – you need to get all assets objects and resize them in the following way:
1. Create batch script in you symfony batch folder:

$ symfony init-batch default dev mybatchname

Also make sure that it users ‘backend’ application (or application that uses sfAssetAdmin module)

2. Place content from the following code block into your batch script

 <?php /* sfAssets resizer batch script

 *
 * !!! BEFORE RUN THIS SCRIPT BACKUP YOUR ASSETS FOLDER !!!
 *
 * This batch script resizes all image assets stored by sfAssetsLibraryPlugin plugin
 * If you changed thumbnails' dimentions or added new you'd love this script.
 * Just make changes to your app.yml and run this script.
 * This script doesn't deletes any assets from disk - it's overwrites.
 *
 * @package    alexfilatov
 * @subpackage batch
 * @author     Alex Filatov http://www.alexfilatov.com
 */

define('SF_ROOT_DIR',    realpath(dirname(__file__).'/..'));
define('SF_APP',         'backend');
define('SF_ENVIRONMENT', 'dev');
define('SF_DEBUG',       1);

require_once(SF_ROOT_DIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'apps'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.SF_APP.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'config'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'config.php');

// initialize database manager

$databaseManager = new sfDatabaseManager();
$databaseManager->initialize();

// batch process starts here
// If you have a lot of records you should refine this using hydration
$c = new Criteria();
$c->add(sfAssetPeer::TYPE, 'image');
$assets = sfAssetPeer::doSelect($c);

foreach ($assets as $asset) {
	echo 'Processing ' . SF_ROOT_DIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'/web/'.$asset->getFolderPath() . ':' . $asset->getFilename() . '...';
	sfAssetsLibraryTools::createThumbnails($asset->getFolderPath(), $asset->getFilename());
	echo "done!n";
}
// batch process ends here

?>

3. Run it

php mybatchname.php

Important notice: if you have a lot of image assets (thousands) you need to refine this script using object hydration.
I’ll do it later, just to let you know.
Peace!

Conclusion:

The study shows a clear set of common practices and guidelines for setting type in Web design. Note, though, that these findings are not scientific and should serve only as rough guidelines:

1. Either serif or sans-serif fonts are fine for body copy and headings, but sans-serif fonts are still more popular for both.
2. Common choices for headlines are Georgia, Arial and Helvetica.
3. Common choices for body copy are Georgia, Arial, Verdana and Lucida Grande.
4. The most popular font size for headings is a range between 18 and 29 pixels.
5. The most popular font size for body copy is a range between 12 and 14 pixels.
6. Header font size ÷ Body copy font size = 1.96.
7. Line height (pixels) ÷ body copy font size (pixels) = 1.48.
8. Line length (pixels) ÷ line height (pixels) = 27.8.
9. Space between paragraphs (pixels) ÷ line height (pixels) = 0.754.
10. The optimal number of characters per line is between 55 and 75, but between 75 and 85 characters per line is more popular,
11. Body text is left-aligned, image replacement is rarely used and links are either underlined or highlighted with bold or color.

Read full article here: Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices

The owner of this resource, Nazar Voznyak, is the official contributor of the Symfony Project, had written a lot of Symony plugins available for free from this site or from the official Symfony website.

Congratulations, Nazar, you’re doing great work!

Propel DB Schema Reference

Because all new Symfony project must be started from creating such DB schema.

Briefly:

How does it work?

Setup is quite simple. Small javascript file is added to your web page and that’s it. This script listens for ad clicks and reports them to Google Analytics (analytics code has to be already installed in the web pages). GoogleAnalytics interface is than used to interpret tracking results.

Big thanks to original poster and here is more details in the original article Tracking AdSense clicks with Google Analytics

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