http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog A blog about webdesign, PHP, development and IT Mon, 10 May 2010 16:16:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ 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/ When maintaining & developming large web applications you might notice that eclipse slows up a bit. Building workspace, showing the autocomplete or syntax highlighting might take a while to load. The solution for this is to optimise your eclipse.ini and tell your favourite PHP development IDE to use more memory. After ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/developer-faster-with-lightning-fast-eclipse/ As you may have read we migrated this blog to a wordpress one. Yeahyeah, we are not officially wordpressified. My impression of the core The default wordpress core holds alot of use'eable functions, but it took me a while to figure out how the thing worked. You need to know that wordpress ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/wordpress-seperate-rss-feed-for-category-author-tag/ Following up on my previous post on "installing 3.4 + PDT 2.x" i wanted to let you know there is a much easier way. As we are coming close to a stable version of pdt 2.x (launch on 29th of December) : 2.0 M1 - November 03 2.0 M2 - ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/installing-eclipse-latest-php-development-tools-pdt-20/ I hate reinventing the wheel. That's why i decided to migrate this blog to wordpress. It takes alot of effort to write your own symfony plugin that holds the functionality of a full stack blogging platform (like wordpress, typepad, blogger ...). The Symfony Story Initially we started by using the simpleBlogPlugin and ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/blog-moved-to-wordpress/