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Symfony Community Survey 2012

Fabien Potencier — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:01:40 +0200

Symfony 2.0 has been released for quite a long time now, and so we would like to conduct a quick survey to get a better understanding of the Symfony community.

I'm going to use some of the aggregated results for my Symfony Live keynote, and all the aggregated results will be published on this blog after the conference.

Not convinced yet? Enter your SensioLabs Connect username at the end of the survey to get a cool badge and to be included in a raffle with great Symfony goodies up for grabs (t-shirts and caps).

Would you mind spending a few minutes to answer these questions?

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A week of symfony #280 (7->13 May 2012)

Javier Eguiluz — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:27:06 +0200

This week, Symfony 2.1 updated its minimum required PHP version to 5.3.3, which contains a lot of bug fixes. Meanwhile, Dependency Injection and Session were the most active components in the repository.

Development mailing list

Empty square brackets in Symfony2 log using Monolog

Symfony2 development highlights

Master branch:

23e15bb: [Validator] fixed a bug in the ExecutionContext
ead4908: [Validator] some cleanup of the GraphWalker
bdc21b4: [Validator] added a base AbstractLoader
3719c70: updated minimum PHP version to 5.3.3 (5.3.3 has some interesting fixes and this is the version used by Redhat 6 and Debian 6)
23b5e60: [DependencyInjection] fixed anonymous services handling in XmlFileLoader
43249de: [DependencyInjection] added support for anonymous services as properties
906f6f6: [DependencyInjection] fixed private services removal when used as configurators
f14961b: [DomCrawler] converted all usage of filter() to filterXPath() in unit tests to be less dependent on CssSelector
c9ebe67: [DomCrawler] fixed encoding when using addHtmlContent()
3d9990a: [DependencyInjection] added ParameterBag::remove
80a2a92: [Yaml] fixed value of mapping (even if value is sequence) doesn't have to be indented
0216e05: [Session] assume that memcache(d) instances are already configured
b865b09: [Session] fixed the PDO handler for mysql concurrent write
51b753a: [Session] cleanup of the PDO storage
709be4b: [WDT] added documentation link
e193452: switched to use mbstring whenever possible instead of iconv

2.0.x branch:

906f6f6: [DependencyInjection] fixed private services removal when used as configurators
cbc3ed3: [HttpKernel] added some constant for better forward compatibility
c642a5e: [CssSelector] ignored an optional whitespace after a combinator

Repository summary: 4,645 watchers (#1 in PHP, #30 overall) and 1207 forks (#1 in PHP, #12 overall).

Updated plugins

apostrophe:
- fixed link_to is not suitable for user-supplied URLs
apostropheBlog:
- set a-blog-has-filters flag slot when the filter sentence is present

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Symfony Live Paris 2012: Some great news

Fabien Potencier — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:49:20 +0200

Symfony Live Paris 2012 is in less than a month. In this post, I'll give you a quick update on the latest news.

The Schedule

As you might have noticed, we published the full schedule for Symfony Live Paris 2012 some time ago. This year, we have three tracks running in parallel; and that will allow for more breaks and plenty of time for everyone to chat and share.

New this year is a special slot for lightning talks. The idea is really simple: every 10 minutes, a speaker has 7 minutes to talk about something related to Symfony: from serious talks about a specific feature or bundle to fun topics about Symfony, developers, life, and more! Be creative, and be prepared!

To entertain us the first day, Jeremy Mikola will host a Jeopardy game. If you know Jeremy and if you follow him on Twitter, you already know that it will be a lot of fun! (no pressure Jeremy)

The Training Day

Like every year, the day before the conference, Sensio Labs will organize a training day. This year, you can choose between two different topics on Symfony2:

Introduction to Symfony2: Learn the basics of the Symfony framework and get ready to develop your first applications.
Going further with Symfony2: Learn more about the Symfony features set with advanced tools like caching, security and dependency injection management.

Each training will be delivered in French and English.

Registration

I know that most of you are waiting for the last minute to register but the sooner the better, really. One of the reason is that the hotels are already quite full nearby the conference venue... but the main reason is that it would make me sleep better in the coming weeks.

Also, if you have purchased your ticket as a voucher, don't forget to redeem it on the website to actually be registered.

Translation

Hosting a conference in France is not easy as French people expect sessions to be in French. This year, we have a big new thing for French attendees: we are going to have real-time translation for all sessions in track A and B.

And we are also going to have English translations for French sessions, which is great news as we shoud have a great session on the usage of Symfony2 at Overblog, which is one of the biggest blogging platform in Europe!

Videos

Last, but not the least, I can now announce that all sessions (in track A and B) will be recorded. And best of all, these videos will be free for all attendees.

A week of symfony #279 (30 April -> 6 May 2012)

Javier Eguiluz — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:57:23 +0200

This week, Symfony 2.0.13 was released, including 120 commits with bug fixes and some nice tweaks (view changelog).

Development mailing list

Symfony2 development highlights

Master branch:

dbd9568: [HttpKernel] memcache and Redis profiler storage update
991474b: [HttpKernel] fixed RedisProfilerStorage falling unit tests when Redis extension is not available
c195957: [Components] fixed tests/autoloading and switched to Composer
95b8e29: [BrowserKit] removed dependency of CookieJar to Response
503a51f, f273edc: [HttpFoundation] updated RFC references in Response

2.0.x branch:

5b92b9e: [Console] selectively output to STDOUT or OUTPUT stream (Addresses issues with writing console output for IBM i5 Series OS400)
6aa4817, b66b6fc, a7868a7, 06274db: Released Symfony 2.0.13
7fe236a: [Security] configured ports in RetryAuthenticationEntryPoint according to router settings
970d0b4: [BrowserKit] check class existence only when required

Repository summary: 4,585 watchers (#1 in PHP, #30 overall) and 1190 forks (#1 in PHP, #12 overall).

New plugins

sfWidgetFormAvatar: Input field will be seen as a default picture. Default picture will be automatically changed by file selected. The file will be uploaded once selected. A preview will be automatically generated once file selected / uploaded.

Updated plugins

dcSaml:
- fixes and tweaks
apostrophe:
- added simple styles for an "allow comments" checkbox
- use of the 'limit' or 'firstOnly' option to slideshow slots no longer prevents you from successfully editing an existing slideshow
- if a video has no thumbnail and the video slot was rendered with the thumbnailOnly flag, display a reasonable placeholder rather than a 500 error
- new renderTemplate method in aEngineActions allows you to return from an action in a way that allows app.yml to specify an alternative partial or component in lieu of the template that would normally be used
- BaseaMediaActions uses return renderTemplate() consistently
apostropheBlog:
- app_aBlog_allow_comments_individually allows comments to be toggled on and off individually for particular posts
- app_aBlog_allow_comments_initially determines whether comments are initially allowed on a new post (true) or forbidden (false)
- when searching the blog, respect the order of the page ids returned by the search service

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Symfony 2.0.13 released

Fabien Potencier — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:58:44 +0200

Symfony 2.0.13 has just been released.

The CHANGELOG has all the details about the changes and you can even have a look at the full diff.

If you are starting a new project, you can get the Symfony Standard Edition distribution on the download page.

If you already have a project based on the Symfony Standard Edition 2.0.x, you can easily upgrade to 2.0.12 by getting the new deps and deps.lock files.

Then, run the vendors script (it also clears your cache):

$ ./bin/vendors install

Remember that the Symfony2 Components are also available as standalone libraries. You can get them via their dedicated read-only repositories on Github (https://github.com/symfony/Finder for instance), install them via PEAR (pear install symfony2/Finder), or even install them via Composer.

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A week of symfony #278 (23->29 April 2012)

Javier Eguiluz — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:00:32 +0200

This week, development activity focused on Form component, with lots of fixes and tweaks. Meanwhile, an intense debate about Symfony 2.1 release started on the mailing list. In addition, the full schedule for Symfony Live Paris 2012 was announced.

Development mailing list

Symfony2 development highlights

Master branch:

f7200e4: [Form] added guessPattern method to FormTypeGuesserInterface
d9e142b: [Form] restored and deprecated guessMinLength() method in FormTypeGuesser
4171305: [Console] use proc_open instead of exec to suppress errors when run on Windows and stty is not present
1c03a16: [Process] fixed ProcessFailedException not populating exception message due to a missing sprintf parameter
6756f28: [Session] fixed Backward Compatibility issue with getFlashes()
3551b29, b180c01: [WebProfiler] added phpinfo information
eb75ab1: [Form] fixed results of the FieldType+FormType merge
c623fcf: [Form] fixed CSRF protection did not run if token was missing
649752c: [Form] fixed CSRF token was not displayed on empty complex forms
167e64f: [Form] fixed field attributes are not rendered in the label anymore
d3bb4d0: [Form] renamed option 'primitive' to 'single_control'
246c885: [Form] fixed default value of 'error_bubbling' is now determined by the 'single_control' option

2.0.x branch:

3b7ee9a, de73de0, 2e7d3b1: fixed http_build_query
c89f3d3: [HttpKernel] added DEPRECATED errors
4633fa9: bumped monolog version

Repository summary: 4,543 watchers (#1 in PHP, #30 overall) and 1175 forks (#1 in PHP, #12 overall).

Updated plugins

apostrophe:
- added app_a_dateFormat option to specify a date format to be passed to the date() function
- new thumbnailOnly option to video slots renders the thumbnail with the requested dimensions, instead of the actual video
- added autoplay option for video slots
apostropheBlog:
- added app_aBlog_addThisInExcerpts option, which defaults to true, determines whether we really want addThis in excerpts (blog index pages)
- refactored so that you can more easily override the default number of pages per blog post to something other than a constant number in app.yml

They talked about us

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A week of symfony #277 (16->22 April 2012)

Javier Eguiluz — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:35:58 +0200

This week Symfony 2.1 introduced its shiny new web debug toolbar. In addition, the second bug-hunt day took place, resulting in tens of bug fixes and surpassing another remarkable milestone: more than 4,000 issues in the official repository.

Symfony2 development highlights

Master branch:

a0d047b: [HttpFoundation] return from Response::prepare() so that the method may be chained
b06537e: [FrameworkBundle] refactored router:debug code to use get() when outputting a single route
2a49449: [Form] simplified CSRF mechanism and removed csrf type (CSRF fields are now only added when the view is built)
fcb2227: [Form] deprecated FieldType, which has been merged into FormType
46f0393, 6336d93: [Validator] removed return value from ConstraintValidatorInterface::isValid() and renamed method to validate() because of the lack of a return value
1b320c8: [Finder] added not equal operator
3939c90: [FrameworkBundle] fixed TraceableEventDispatcher unable to trace static class callables
8bdff01: [DoctrineBridge, Form] added collection guess for array Doctrine type and array constraint type
b7b26af: [DependencyInjection] added IntrospectableContainerInterface::initialized()
ccd6bbc: [Form] removed extra CSRF field on collection prototype
c578d3a: [Filesystem] fixed makePathRelative on windows with mixed paths
5c059aa: fixed chmod() calls to apply umask
e7f1295: [Filesystem] fixed Filesystem::chmod to apply umask properly
082d86e, 218813c: [Finder] added contains() and notContains() methods
94bee7a: [Filesystem] symlink() creates target directories
a22f0cd: enhanced FlattenException to include more methods from Exception
f7287db: [WebProfilerBundle] deprecated the verbose option for the WDT as this is not needed anymore
9447b84: [Propel1] allowed PropelObjectCollection only in CollectionToArrayTransformer
4ff92b9, 70a6de9: [EventDispatcher] added generic event class
f728463: [Finder] fixed the iterators
3937561: [FrameworkBundle] look for translations in %kernel.root_dir%/Resources/%bundle%/translations
01ca0ad: [Propel1] added security layer

2.0.x branch:

6f9c05d: [Locale] completed Stub with intl_error_name
0a60664: [Locale] updated StubIntlDateFormatter::format() exception message when timestamp argument is an array for PHP >= 5.3.4
f16ff89: [Locale] fixed StubNumberFormatter::parse() to behave like the NumberFormatter::parse() regarding to error flagging
e4cbbf3: [Locale] fixed StubNumberFormatter::format() to behave like the NumberFormatter::parse() regarding to error flagging
fab1b5a: [Locale] changed inequality operator to strict checking and updated some assertions
3939c90: [FrameworkBundle] fixed TraceableEventDispatcher unable to trace static class callables
cd783fb, 686653a: [HttpKernel] fixed cache vary lookup and write
9b5be1d: [Yaml] fixed tests when iconv and mbstring PHP extensions are not available
7ddc8cb: [FrameworkBundle] monitor added/removed translations files in dev

Repository summary: 4,492 watchers (#1 in PHP, #30 overall) and 1164 forks (#1 in PHP, #12 overall).

New plugins

sfDoctrineCreateInPlace: A doctrine choice widget to add choice without leave the form screen.
tiWorldMap: displays a vectorial map and shows associated data.

Updated plugins

cpDatePicker:
- updated ad module
sfDoctrineActAsSluggableAttachment:
- quality for transformed images and update for documentation
sfSyncContent:
- syncing 'to' rather than 'from' is working again
- a 'symfony cc' is now performed on the receiving end
sfJQueryDateTimeFormWidget:
- commiting version 1.0.2

They talked about us

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Towards Symfony 2.1: The new Web Debug Toolbar

Fabien Potencier — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:56:41 +0200

Today, I've merged the new web debug toolbar for Symfony 2.1.

The look of the toolbar has been changed for the better, but the most important improvement comes from the fact that the toolbar hides some information according to the size of your screen. Or put another way, the larger your screen is, the more information you will have at your fingertips.

Here is how the toolbar looks like at different screen resolution:

But even if you have a small screen, you actually can still get all the information by getting over each icon:

Big thanks to Juti Noppornpitak who did all the hard work.

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A week of symfony #276 (9->15 April 2012)

Javier Eguiluz — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:39:52 +0200

This week, the schedule of the next Symfony Live Paris 2012 conference was announced. In addition, the documentation section was revamped with downloadable PDFs and the first of the two planned bug hunt days took place.

Development mailing list

[FrameworkBundle] Why is ESI instance created directly

Symfony2 development highlights

Master branch:

efad5d5: [Filesystem] prevented infiite loop on windows while calling mirror on symlink
d17ba0e: fixed base URL detection when request URI contains encoded chars
55014a6: [Routing] request methods always return a raw path, fix the matcher to decode only once
2645120: [Form] fixed handling of expanded choice lists, checkboxes and radio buttons with empty values
2e07256: [Form] simplified choice list API
bc9bc4a: [Form] fixed behavior of expanded multiple-choice field when submitted without ticks
61d792e: [Form] changed checkboxes in an expanded multiple-choice field to not include the choice index
004c873: [Form] fixed display of DateTimeType and TimeType when displayed as single_text and with_seconds is false
b63bd0e, bd1d28c: [Console] added formatter style stack
22d8a43: [ClassLoader] added XCache class loader
3469713: [Validator] added less-strict email host verification
9307f5b: [Routing] implement bug fixes and enhancements
b733045: [Form] fixed option support in Form component
8329087: [Form] moved calculation of ChoiceType options to closures
f666836: [Routing] simplified regex with named variables
4120f13: [Form] added all() method to the FormBuilder class
6483d88: [Security] fixed ObjectIdentity::fromDomainObject and UserSecurityIdentity::from(Account|Token) when working with proxies
27a05f4, 382b083: [Routing] small optimization of PhpGeneratorDumper
70df8d3: [FrameworkBundle] made the Esi and Store instances configurable in HttpCache base class
82bbf3b: [HttpKernel] allow override of ContainerBuilder instance used to build container
c0e7ee9: [FrameworkBundle] made session save path configurable
6df7a72: [Form] deprecated FormValidatorInterface and moved implementations to event listeners
2551270: [Profiler] minimize the number of Profile writes
41bdf26: [DoctrineBridge] initialize proxies in UniqueEntityValidator
80f96b7: [DependencyInjection] added ability to clear tags by name

2.0.x branch:

f3408cc: [Finder] avoid unnecessary use of the @ operator
31dde14: [Locale] updated StubIntlDateFormatter::format() behavior for PHP >= 5.3.4
6465a69, 77185e0: [Routing] fixes to handle spaces in route pattern
3ae826a: [DependencyInjection] check attribute type of service tags
01fcb08: [HttpKernel] fix the ProfilerListener
bb61e09: [Locale] use the correct way for Intl error
663d218: [Locale] changed method name

Repository summary: 4,438 watchers (#1 in PHP, #29 overall) and 1146 forks (#1 in PHP, #12 overall).

New plugins

dcSaml: SSO provided by Saml allow developers to concentrate in business logic delegating all authentication and authorization work to Saml Identity Manager.
sfSelectTimeInputJQueryTimePicker: A plugin used to implement a jquery time picker within the forms.
sfFrontendOptimizer: Combines multiple JavaScript and CSS files into one JavaScript and one CSS file at runtime, in order to minimize the number of HTTP requests required to render a given page. Also delete spaces in html output.
tiDoctrineOAuthServer: Provides the basis for making an OAuth server. It provides each requested URL in the OAuth protocol 1.0a (request token, user authorization and access token).

Updated plugins

sfSyncContent:
- new --gzip option speeds up sync-content task in some cases
apostrophe:
- purge() needs a when clearing a prefix, otherwise we clear the cache too generously
- adding trailing .*$ is gratuitous and just slows down some regex engines, the Mongo documentation mentions that this may prevent the index from being used as quickly
- removed "allowed variants" from standard area slideshow options, was locking out other variants from app.yml
- the new apostrophe:ssh task option --root connects as root rather than the user in properties.ini

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Documentation: Some nice improvements

Fabien Potencier — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:35:27 +0200

A month ago, I've talked about some great enhancements we made for the documentation section of the Symfony website. Today, I'm really happy to announce that we have made some nice improvements again.

First, and probably one of the most requested feature for the Symfony website, the documentation is now available as downloadable PDFs; you can download gorgeous PDFs for all Symfony versions and for all available languages (and yes, providing epub files is the next step).

You can even download one big all-in-one PDF with everything included; more than 700 pages of Symfony goodness!

The second improvement was needed as Symfony 2.1 is now right around the corner. On each documentation page, there is a switch button that allows you to change the Symfony version and the language of the current piece of documentation.

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Symfony Blog

Symfony Community Survey 2012

A week of symfony #280 (7->13 May 2012)

Development mailing list

Symfony2 development highlights

Updated plugins

They talked about us

Symfony Live Paris 2012: Some great news

The Schedule

The Training Day

Registration

Translation

Videos

Sponsors

A week of symfony #279 (30 April -> 6 May 2012)

Development mailing list

Symfony2 development highlights

New plugins

Updated plugins

They talked about us

Symfony 2.0.13 released

A week of symfony #278 (23->29 April 2012)

Development mailing list

Symfony2 development highlights

Updated plugins

They talked about us

A week of symfony #277 (16->22 April 2012)

Symfony2 development highlights

New plugins

Updated plugins

They talked about us

Towards Symfony 2.1: The new Web Debug Toolbar

A week of symfony #276 (9->15 April 2012)

Development mailing list

Symfony2 development highlights

New plugins

Updated plugins

They talked about us

Documentation: Some nice improvements