Alex Filatov
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AJAX request with Symfony sfBrowser in Lime functional test
Jul 22nd
Hello Symfonians!
While doing functional tests for my current Symfony application I needed to make AJAX call to one of my project endpoint.
I have found that not Lime or sfBrowser have this ability out of the box.
So if you need to make AJAX request from your Lime functional test you need do the following in your test:
<?php
include(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../bootstrap/functional.php');
$browser = new sfTestFunctional(new sfBrowser());
$limeTest = $browser->test();
$browser->setHttpHeader("X-Requested-With", "XMLHttpRequest");
$browser->post('/ajax/uri', array('param_name' => 'param_value'))->
with('request')->begin()->
isParameter('module', 'someModule')->
isParameter('action', 'someAction')->
end()->
with('response')->begin()->
isStatusCode(200)->
end();
?>
The key point is in the headers, you send to the server:
$browser->setHttpHeader("X-Requested-With", "XMLHttpRequest");
Symfony sfAssetsLibraryPlugin assets resize script
Aug 25th
Hi there!
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
you’ll have a problem: you need to resize all old images according to new thumbnail type.
From Symfony to Grails!
Jun 12th
Few weeks ago I started learning Grails framework.
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.
