Darren Beale

Debugging with PhpED and DBG

20. January 2008

As long-term PhpED user I’ve always been well aware that I was not making the most of some of the more powerful features of my IDE, particularly the debugging capabilities. Well this week I finally got debugging set-up properly and as per most of my other blog posts I’m listing what I did here for [...]

Setting PHP error reporting from a vhost or .htaccess

16. August 2007

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Here on our dev servers we turn PHP error reporting full on so we get to know of any issues with our code well before it hits production (where errors are turned off). This does however cause problems with older legacy sites that generate reams of warning errors because the developers were slack and - [...]

Symfony’s most popular plugins

15. August 2007

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Francios a core member of the Symfony team recently blogged about the 20 most popular plugins of the Symfony project based upon page views. That list is: sfSimpleCMSPlugin sfGuardPlugin sfPropelActAsNestedSetBehaviorPlugin sfMediaLibraryPlugin sfSimpleBlogPlugin sfSimpleForumPlugin sfFeed2Plugin sfgWidgetsPlugin sfThumbnailPlugin sfUJSPlugin sfControlPanelPlugin sfFormValidationPlugin sfMogileFSPlugin sfLightboxPlugin sfCaptchaPlugin sfNiftyPlugin sfPrototypeWindowPlugin sfPropelLoadbalancerPlugin sfSavvyPlugin sfYzClientSideValidationPlugin I find it very interesting that the ’simple’ ones are all in the top 6 with the CMS one - which is very new - already taking up top spot. It [...]

installing the Symfony plugin sfSimpleCMS

2. August 2007

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I was recently asked if I’d sucessfully got the Symfony plugin sfSimpleCMS working and I’m afraid my answer was no. I had tried briefly when preparing for my talk, but something didn’t work and I carried on with other things. Being reminded of it and having an hour to kill before I head off to the [...]

New Symfony plugin: sfSimpleCMSPlugin

17. July 2007

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Preparing for my talk I was on the Symfony wiki and came across this: This plugin allows you to add a simple Content Management System (CMS) to your symfony application with the following features: * Uses Javascript and Ajax to provide a neat user experience * Edit zones in pages * Edit page URL (you can use / in [...]

Bargain PHP training

2. June 2007

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David and Kat over at Pale Purple are offering a PHP training course lasting 5 days starting in July for £500; a special offer price as it’s the first time they’ve ran the course publically. Sounds like a bargain to me.

Symfony book released and codebase tagged 1.0 RC1

31. January 2007

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Symfony, the PHP5 framework that I’ve firmly adopted at work for any new bespoke projects went to version 1.0 RC1 this week. Symfony is great, not just because it allows developers like me to get on and build complex, easily maintainable apps but also because the documentation is superb. When I picked it up 5 months ago [...]

Symfony job going

17. January 2007

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Sensio, Fabien Potencier’s company yesterday announced a great sounding job right up there in the ticks all the boxes category: Whether you currently live in the US or in Poland, if you know symfony well enough, we’re interested. The positions are in Paris, France, and we are willing to do the necessary paperwork and look for [...]

Symfony and AJAX

19. November 2006

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I’ve been playing with the AJAX support in Symfony this weekend and I’m blown away by how easy it is. Today I put together a detailed/summary view switcher for a list of items coming from a database with a (script.aculo.us) fade in/out effect and I didn’t need to write one line of JavaScript. Now that’s what [...]

Remote PHP debugging

28. September 2006

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After 8 or so years of being a professional web developer I today finally cracked using a debugger with PHP. I’ve been a long suffering PHPEdit user from since it was open source and into having to pay (twice) for a licence. Unfortunately I started getting very irritated by some annoying and performance degrading bugs in [...]

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New Symfony plugin: sfSimpleCMSPlugin

Bargain PHP training

Symfony book released and codebase tagged 1.0 RC1

Symfony job going

Symfony and AJAX

Remote PHP debugging

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