http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog A blog about webdesign, PHP, development and IT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:28:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You must know by now, Digital Base is using Symfony as the framework of choice for all web development projects. Therefore all DigitalBase developers will be attending Symfony Live 2010. Monday evening we will travel to Paris by train with a delegation of 4 symfony geeks/fans/enthousiasts. From the symfony 2010 website : Sensio ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/digitalbase-attending-symfony-live-2010/ I've been building websites for a while now. So i could say i am quite experienced although my (programming) knowledge is limited mainly focussed on building php applications. As a developer time is expensive, that's why i am always looking for ways to speed up the web development process. A ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/what-is-important-in-a-php-editoride/ You gotta love the admin generator... There's only one problem: it's secured by default (according to the symfony site). But I want to use these modules in a non-secured environment. Adding credentials: [] in the admin generator does not work... Why? Look at your automoduleactions. You'll find a preExecute function: public function ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/how-to-unsecure-admin-generated-modules/ My old post handled Propel 1.2. This is the way to do it in Propel 1.3 $c = new Criteria(); $c->add(FavoriteDatePeer::EVENTDATAPROPOSAL_ID, $this->getId()); $c->addSelectColumn("SUM(".FavoriteDatePeer::SCORE.") as rank"); $stmt = FavoriteDatePeer::doSelectStmt($c); $row = $stmt->fetch(); ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/simplifying-queries-using-sum-count-etc-in-propel-13/ I just found out someone is working on a new symfony plugin for eclipse, there used to be symfoclipse, but closed-source, commercial and no support for Eclipse 3.4. This new plugin works with symfony 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. The website states it is tested with Eclipse 3.3.2 and PDT 1.0.2 ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/symfony-plugin-for-eclipse-sfdt/ For an internal web development project i was looking for a good date picker. I bounced onto sfFormExtraPlugin, but it took me a while to find the correct jquery & jquery UI css & javascript files and set the paths. I decided to create my owner datepicker based on the ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/using-dbformextraplugin-for-datepicker-or-datetimepicker/ I previously told you we moved from Trac to Redmine for project management (issue/ticket tracking, milestones, source control management). In this post i will tell you what i like about Redmine and compare it to our previous Trac setup. From what i understand from the Trac mailing list & some discussions ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/what-i-love-about-redmine/ If you are into PHP development, this might interest you : PDT 2.0 is out, download it here. Congrats to the PDT team for this great release and the respect of the deadline. If you are wondering whats new, check this page. Have fun with it... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/pdt-20-for-eclipse-is-out/ We decided to take some time to "pimp" this blog. We still have a long "todo" list, this is just the start... A quick before & after :) Before New & Improved A quick list of what we did: integrated search box on top recent posts & comments on top added links to search bar updated general layout ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/pimpin-this-blog/ A new version of wordpress is out, codenamed "Coltrane". So what's new ? XMLRPC Comments API : nice api to manage comments through xmlrpc Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation : use keyboard shortcuts to manage the comments Sticky Posts : ability to "stick" a post to homepage Theme update api, ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/wordpress-coltrane-upgraded-to-27/