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Upgrading to Drupal 8 looks a lot like Symfony

Aaron Belchamber — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 13:17:39 +0000

The good news about upgrading to Drupal 8 is that it looks a lot like Symfony, the bad news is that upgrading to Drupal 8 looks a lot like Symfony. I guess it’s just your perspective but if you have a lot of sites steeped deeply in D7, it’s quite a transition. However, if most […]

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Latest Useful Web Resources and Links #1, March 2016

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:31:37 +0000

I created this page as a running repository of useful, miscellaneous web notes for later reference. Javascript & JQuery How to get the latest version of JQuery: alert('JQuery: '+$.fn.jquery); // Outputs JQuery: x.x.x Useful info about Javascript and JQuery source maps — an explanation about what they are and how they are used: http://elijahmanor.com/the-magic-of-the-jquery-1-9-source-map/ Parsley […]

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Symfony & Twig: Simple month and year form selection widget

Aaron Belchamber — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:37:39 +0000

This is a very useful Twig that I use in a lot of different forms. I attach a listener and when they click “Update” it will redirect the user by appending the URL with the /year/month to hook nice and cleanly in built-in routes to pass the year and month into different controllers. <form id="yearMonthWidget" […]

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Symfony & Doctrine: Using table joins with unassociated entities

Aaron Belchamber — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:29:27 +0000

In Symfony using Doctrine, if no association is available for two entities, you can still join them and treat them like they have a relationship. To do so, you have to use the “Join: WITH” method. Here’s an example query to illustrate, notice the “a.user = u.id”. public function getHistory($users) { $qb = $this->entityManager->createQueryBuilder(); $qb […]

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Symfony: Re-authenticate FOS user automatically without making users log back in

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 17:25:05 +0000

Integrating a WordPress user login with Symfony is pretty painless if you need to share user sessions. Just don’t rely solely on that WordPress cookie, but cross reference a randomly assigned hash that can reference back to the WordPress user’s table. When you get your system to authenticate a user and you find your FOS […]

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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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PHP Developers: Pre-made state pulldown lists for HTML forms

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:15:11 +0000

I like to reuse code as much as possible and if there’s underyling data in something I’ll use again, I’ll put that data in some extractable form in an EAV (Entity, Attribute, Value) database table so I don’t need to maintain the data anywhere except one place. So in the example below where the variable […]

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Symfony: Forcing redirects in controller and specifying redirect type

Aaron Belchamber — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:11:23 +0000

The Symfony documentation is getting better, but it still lacks more detail, which is why I’ve been collecting helpful tips and snippets here. According to the Symfony docs, by default, the “redirectToRoute()" method performs a 302 (temporary) redirect, so in order to specify a 301 (permanent) redirect, you can add the third argument in this […]

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In Symfony, moving some code from one bundle to another a simple way to modularize your code, reuse and scale. Oh yeah!

Aaron Belchamber — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:25:44 +0000

I recently ran into an issue where I found I was creating a new user profile system for different systems and then it occurred to my: DRY. DON’T REPEAT YOURSELF. Yet, in the bustle of activity I realized there was too much in common with these user profiles to rewrite the code. So why not […]

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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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