Alex Filatov
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OpenGEO – yet another startup with Symfony
Aug 1st
Name is: OpenGeo
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!
Migration to Symfony 1.1: Step Two
Jul 17th
In my previous Symfony 1.1 migration step 1 I descirbed how to upgrade your old Symfony 1.0 project into Symfony 1.1 version. This is works and this is OK.
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.
Migration to Symfony 1.1: First step
Jul 4th
Hello guys!
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!
