<?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();

?>

$browser->setHttpHeader("X-Requested-With",	"XMLHttpRequest");

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!

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.

Last Saturday 07/26/08 me and my friend decided to create simple online service for Ukrainian market.

Idea was in the follwoing – create free of charge open source database of geographical locations of all IP addresses of Ukraine.
Every visitor has possibility to see his IP address and set his Ukrainial location with help of drop downs.

Possible stakeholders of this service are:

- e-commerce services like auctions, online malls
it would be easy to find goods near to you with it, for example find motorbike in 50km radius.

- social services (social networks)
Also find people near to your location and get in contact

- and so on, connected to location definition

So we decided to start development of this project with Symfony (actually I enforced him to do that ).

Two days ago we finished first stage and now project in “locations-collection” stage.

Please take a look on www.opengeo.org.ua

The next step will be development of analysis module and user interface improvements, for example make location tag-cloud instead of select-boxes.

Feel free to say your opinion in comments to this post – it will be very useful!

After that I upgraded project I opened it in my browser and got errors (of course, in development environment you can see it). My Symfony was dissatisfied of presence ‘web_debug: ~’ and ‘flash:     ~’ lines in my ‘frontend/config/filters.yml’. I deleted these lines and everything became OK.

There are too many small issues I’ve discovered while migration process and seems like there will be more.
And another reason – I’m using many plugins from different vendors in my project so these plugins must be custom edited to work well with 1.1 – It’s a lot of work.

I made a final decision – rollback to Symfony 1.0.17 with my project and wait while almost all plugins vendors migrate to 1.2 Because 1.1 is the transition release and for one year only.

So, I’ve got good experience with migration and have seen powerfull features of 1.1 like forms, events for example – this is right way of development, Fabien!

We’re looking forward for the 1.2.

Today I decided to migrate one of my project built in Symfony 1.0.16 to Symfony 1.1

I made Symfony upgrade from pear in this way:

# pear upgrade symfony/symfony

And it has downloaded and installed successfully new Symfony 1.1.0 package.

Well done, but the project is under older version still

After that went to the project forlder and tried to run ‘symfony’ command… I got plenty of PHP errors, some files were missed and so on… crap! But these errors pointed me on only one reason – something is wrong with configuration!

I decided to do this is the following way – I generated new symfony 1.1 project by this command:

symfony generate:project ProjectName

It worked fine and I got clean new project.
I copied ‘symfony’ from the project root of the newly generated project to the old project root, replacing the old one.
Also I copied ‘ProjectConfiguration.class.php’ from new /config folder to the old /config folder.

And ran ‘symfony’ command with crossed fingers… Wow! Works! I got symfony help commands list!

But the project still under old Symfony version…

If you run ‘symfony’ command you can see there the following:

project
:clear-controllers  Clears all non production environment controllers (clear-controllers)
:deploy             Deploys a project to another server (sync)
:disable            Disables an application in a given environment (disable)
:enable             Enables an application in a given environment (enable)
:freeze             Freezes symfony libraries (freeze)
:permissions        Fixes symfony directory permissions (permissions, fix-perms)
:unfreeze           Unfreezes symfony libraries (unfreeze)
 :upgrade1.1         Upgrade a symfony project to the 1.1 symfony release

We need the last line!

So I ran the command

#symfony project:upgrade1.1

And i got many lines of migration process result.
Like this:

>> config    The following file is not used anymore. Please remove it.
   E:/Projects/sfprojects/projectname/apps/frontend/config/logging.yml
>> config    The following file is not used anymore. Please remove it.
   E:/Projects/sfprojects/projectname/apps/frontend/config/i18n.yml
>> config    The following file is not used anymore. Please remove it.
   E:/Projects/sfprojects/projectname/apps/frontend/config/config.php
>> config      If you made some customization in this file,
>> config      please migrate the content to the configuration classes.
>> config    The following file is not used anymore. Please remove it.
   E:/Projects/sfprojects/projectname/config/config.php
>> config      If you made some customization in this file,
>> config      please migrate the content to the configuration classes.
>> config    Migrated "E:/Projects/sfproject...projectname/web/frontend_dev.php"
>> config    Migrated "E:/Projects/sfproject...projectname/web/index.php"
>> file+     E:Projectssfprojectsprojec...frontendConfiguration.class.php
>> tokens    E:Projectssfprojectsprojec...frontendConfiguration.class.php
>> factories.yml Migrating E:/Projects/sfproject...e/frontend/config/factories.yml
>> flash     Migrating E:/Projects/sfproject...ame/frontend/config/filters.yml
>> layout    Migrating E:/Projects/sfproject...e/frontend/templates/layout.php
>> propel    Migrating E:Projectssfproject...projectnameconfig/propel.ini
>> propel    Migrating E:Projectssfproject...projectnameconfig/propel.ini
>> settings.yml Migrating E:/Projects/sfproject...me/frontend/config/settings.yml
>> factories.yml Migrating E:/Projects/sfproject...s/frontend/config/factories.yml
>> settings.yml Migrating E:/Projects/sfproject...ps/frontend/config/settings.yml
>> test      Migrating E:Projectssfproject...ectnametest/bootstrap/unit.php
>> test      Migrating E:Projectssfproject...etest/bootstrap/functional.php
>> web_debug Migrating E:/Projects/sfproject...ame/frontend/config/filters.yml

This shows that migration is OK but we need to delete some files listed above.
After I deleted files I realized that migration is over!
I point my browser on my local VirtualHost for this project and got error which I’ll describe in the following migration step.

Happy migration!

The site is about Numerology and numerology courses (if you understand Russian you can read what this site about, if not – use Google Translator )

Please take a look here: http://www.savina.com.ua

It using the following plugins:

• ddAccessibleFormPlugin
• sfCompressWebFilesPlugin
• sfFeed2Plugin
• sfGuardPlugin
• sfMediaLibraryPlugin
• sfNiftyPlugin
• sfPropelActAsCommentableBehaviorPlugin
• sfPropelActAsNestedSetBehaviorPlugin
• sfPropelActAsTaggableBehaviorPlugin
• sfPrototypePlugin
• sfSimpleBlogPlugin
• sfSimpleCMSPlugin
• sfThumbnailPlugin
• sfTipOfTheDayPlugin

It looks pretty fine and now it has small community of people that interested in numegology.

I was very happy to help him with development!

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!

Many-to-Many Relationships with Propel

Here is the link to the Symfony book and you can get familiar with this there.
Symfony Criteria()

BUT there are only simple queries samples.

What if you need something like this:

SELECT
Table1.field1, Table1.field2, Table2.field1
FROM
Table1, Table2
WHERE
((Table1.field3=1 OR Table1.field4=1) AND
Table1.field5 < 400000) AND
Table2.field1=Table1.field1

or smth. like that.

I’ve found useful tool that help you to build such queries

Symfony Criteria code builder tool