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Mesocolumn WordPress child theme fix after updating theme

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 15 May 2016 14:43:23 +0000

It was bound to happen, the very reliable Mesocolumn WordPress theme finally made an entry in a website’s fatal error logs. I make a habit of examining website error logs, if you have a business with a web department, insist that they regularly scan and check your website error logs or subscribe to a service […]

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Git resources: Git explained by humans, for humans

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 12:43:08 +0000

Good Git structure overview Structuring your Git upfront can save you a lot of headaches with you and your team later. Here’s an overview of a great article to help you get your team back to the basics and set a new baseline from which to start relying on Git more effectively as a team. […]

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Symfony Twig: Accessing global values reference

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 16:43:00 +0000

Here is a reference list to access global values within Twig: For $_POST variables use this : {{ app.request.parameter.get("page") }} For $_GET variables use this : {{ app.request.query.get("page") }} For $_COOKIE variables use this : {{ app.request.cookies.get("page") }} For $_SESSION variables use this : {{ app.request.session.get("page") }} For more Symfony Twig shortcuts, view the Twig […]

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PHP Symfony Events: Developer tips to easily extend user administration and management within your code

Aaron Belchamber — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 18:43:27 +0000

A special thanks to James Halsall for some excellent tips in tapping into Symfony events through kernel listeners. His article explains how to create a service to trigger on certain events, this is related to the FOS User Bundle but the same pattern applies to most events in your Symfony project. Click here to read […]

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New update to WordPress “Insert Script” plug-in available for WordPress PHP developers

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 14:12:52 +0000

I added some new improvements to the “Insert Script” WordPress plug-in. You can now declare a JSON string and it will parse it out as $json_vals_arr, an array that gets passed directly to your external PHP script. You can also declare “strings” instead of “vals” as a GET URL string like: “strings=’variable1=value1&variable2=value2&etc=andSoOn'”. To download the […]

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Check if Symfony PHP session has been started

Aaron Belchamber — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:23:44 +0000

Here’s how you can check if a session in Symfony was started: if ($this->get('session')->isStarted()){ // Session has been started, so do stuff here } Not a big fan of session variables, but used for non-sensitive session data, I think sessions are still useful. After all, if you only want certain behaviors on your website tailored […]

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Latest Symfony Composer dependency list for bootstrapping new Symfony bundle with most common bundles

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 18:17:55 +0000

Most Symfony sites you develop will probably include the FOS User Bundle, Twitter Bootstrap, and JQuery. You can always remove them from your Composer dependency list, but here is my latest “Symfony Bootstrap” install. A few issues with dependencies in your Composer are expected, I ran into this error while installing the Sonata Admin Bundle, […]

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MySQL “Where IN” value contained in list used with setParameter() requires value to be array if using placeholders

Aaron Belchamber — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:23:25 +0000

In normal SQL queries, you can use “WHERE IN” like this: “WHERE id IN (1,5,10)” as in: If the list 1,5,10 “contains” the value represented by the value in the “id” field. However, if you define a comma delimited string, you can’t simply do this: $idListString=”1,5,10” $dql=”SELECT d FROM Your/Entity d WHERE id IN (:idList)” […]

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WordPress: Texturize shortcodes?! I thought I heard it all

Aaron Belchamber — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:37:56 +0000

Sometimes, I wonder if the WordPress community doesn’t create some over-complication of things just because it can. I came across the term “texturizing” when I was developing another WordPress plug-in. I ignored the warning before but figured it warranted a second look. After all, it sounds like it could affect something on one of our […]

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Extending a Symfony parent Twig block in child view’s block with parent() call easy, useful and DRY

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 17:59:08 +0000

Twig blocks are like methods in a class. If the Twig container is a class, Twig blocks are methods. So you can call on a parent Twig view and extend the parent just like a function using the “parent()” function like below within the dynamic content tags, which are a pair of squiggly brackets. Here’s […]

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