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Symfony 2.0.10 released

Fabien Potencier — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:35:13 +0100

Symfony 2.0.10 has just been released:

Twig has been updated to 1.6.0 (which fixes a bug when using Assetic in the production environment);
Doctrine has been updated to their latest minor versions;
And as always, some minor bugs has been fixed.

The CHANGELOG has all the details about the changes done in this release and you can also 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 2.0.10 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 #266 (30 January -> 5 February 2012)

Javier Eguiluz — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:24:32 +0100

This week, Symfony2 master branch committed a ton of fixes, tweaks and refactorizations related to Form and Validation components. In addition, Symfony2 official repository achieved a very remarkable milestone: 1,000 forks.

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Symfony2 development highlights

Master branch:

a676598, 57cc531: [Form] added class LazyChoiceList
307f17d: [FrameworkBundle] code factorization in TraceableEventDispatcher
5aa5987: [Form] fixed form children are always validated in group Default
dbd3a1b: [Security] allowed unsetting parentAcl on MutableAclInterface
1678a3d: [Validator] fixed Validator::validateValue() propagates empty validation root instead of the provided value
1dd302c: [Validator] fixed ConstraintViolationList::__toString() to not include dots in the output if the root is empty
f904a9e: [Validator] fixed GraphWalker does not add constraint violation if error message is empty
a103c28: [Validator] the Collection constraint adds 'missing' and 'extra' errors to the individual fields now
de253dd: [Form] added read_only and disabled attributes
fe85bbd: [Validator] simplified ExecutionContext::addViolation() and added ExecutionContext::addViolationAt()
a30a679: [Validator] made ExecutionContext immutable and introduced new class GlobalExecutionContext
9153f0e: [Validator] deprecated ConstraintValidator methods setMessage(), getMessageTemplate() and getMessageParameters()
3c28ab7, c373d5b: [Routing] no prefix is required to override imported RouteCollections
e9b4c58: [Console] enable process isolantion in shell
7cecb4e: [Form] added support for parent of FormBuilder
2e4ebe4: [Validator] renamed methods addViolationAtRelativePath() and getAbsolutePropertyPath() in ExecutionContext
7837f50: [Form] added FormUtil::singularify()
49d1464: [Form] implemented MergeCollectionListener which calls addXxx() and removeXxx() in your model if found
9b0245b: [Form] made prefix of adder and remover method configurable
9a4e22e: [Form] disallowed infinity in NumberToLocalizedStringTransformer
d208f4e: [Form] made it possible to use models with only either addXxx() or removeXxx()
b393774: [Form] used direct method access in MergeCollectionListener instead of Reflection to avoid problems when using class hierarchies
02f61ad: [Form] renamed choice and collection options 'adder_prefix' and 'remover_prefix' to 'add_method' and 'remove_method' and allowed to specify full method names
8dc40e4, 4847d3a: [FrameworkBundle] added config:dump-reference console command
~~58939f1, 9757958, 2f8ad93, fa32885: added configuration docs for TwigBundle~~ (reverted)
bd461e2: [Form] forms now don't create empty objects anymore if they are completely empty and not required. The empty data for these forms is null
0753cee: [Form] fixed read_only attribute for expanded fields

2.0.x branch:

a1b6d4c: [DependencyInjection] added a failing testcase for escaped % in array parameters
048fc2f: [Form] fixed broken MoneyType test for JPY
8e13095, a7b48c0: [DependencyInjection] fixed the unescaping of parameters to handle arrays

Repository summary: 3,869 watchers (#1 in PHP, #28 overall) and 1000 forks (#1 in PHP, #11 overall).

Updated plugins

apostrophe:
- fixed bug that caused page forms not to work
- refactored getEmbedCode() so it doesn't instantiate embed services twice and doesn't crash if the service URL is bogus and the width and height aren't known
- don't cache non-200 OK responses, it leads to SEO problems
- refactored nonrecursive version of aFiles::rmRf
apostropheBlog:
- fix for XSS attack

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A week of symfony #265 (23->29 January 2012)

Javier Eguiluz — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:19:20 +0100

This week, time, logger and Doctrine collectors were tweaked and refactored. Meanwhile, the Form component fixed lots of bugs, specially with the improvements of ChoiceListInterface and its implementations.

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Symfony2 development highlights

Master branch:

3b260d2: refactored the collector to separate the loggers per connection
e37783f: [DoctrineBridge] refactored the query sanitization in the collector
2a998e0: [FrameworkBundle] handle disabled csrf protection in the PHP templating form helper
3a1699a: handle disabled csrf protection in the Twig FormExtension
87b16e7: [Form] greatly improved ChoiceListInterface and all of its implementations (EntityChoiceList was adapted, the methods getEntities(), getEntitiesByByKeys(), getIdentifier() and getIdentifierValues() were removed/made private. Instead of the first two you can use getChoices() and getChoicesByValues(), for the latter two no replacement exists. ArrayChoiceList was replaced by SimpleChoiceList. PaddedChoiceList, MonthChoiceList and TimezoneChoiceList were removed. Their functionality was merged into DateType, TimeType and TimezoneType)
e1fc5a5: [Form] restricted form names to specific characters to fix generation of HTML IDs and to avoid problems with property paths
f533ef0: [Form] added ChoiceView class for passing choice-related data to the view
43e0db5: [DomCrawler] add support for multivalued form fields
399af27: [Form] implemented checks to assert that values and indices generated in choice lists match their requirements
ed9c348: [Security] Authentication(Success|Failure)Handler can now return null
2dd4bf1, c3f637b: [Form] support for PATCH method in forms
d4300b9, b879397: [WebProfilerBundle] tweak the time view
a52c675: [WebProfilerBundle] improved the logger panel

2.0.x branch:

7f96c8a: [HttpKernel] prevent php script execution in cached ESI pages using HttpCache
c3f0ec7: [DoctrineBundle] made DoctrineBundle fowards compatible with Doctrine 2.2

Repository summary: 3,830 watchers (#1 in PHP, #27 overall) and 983 forks (#1 in PHP, #11 overall).

Updated plugins

dcReloadedFormExtra:
- added a uniquenes checker widget that checks the uniqueness of a value using an Ajax callback
sfSyncContent:
- created default parameters for sync content to be frontend dev FROM prod@production
apostrophe:
- added an app.yml option to return email links in a different format that allows apostrophe.unobfuscateEmailInline to be called outside of the a_js spool
- all unlink() and rmdir() calls in the product now invoke aFiles::unlink() and aFiles::rmdir(), providing a capability to override these methods
- the aFiles class has been refactored into a BaseaFiles? class and an empty aFiles subclass, allowing convenient overrides
- a_button helper now accepts a single array of options as an alternative to the full list of parameters
- slideshows are allowed to have the crossfade transition now even if they have no height specified
- fixed event bug in menutoggle script and added jQuery 1.7 to the plugin
- annotation of multiple media items works again
apostropheBlog:
- added a 'first' class to the first pager in the blog index

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A week of symfony #264 (16->22 January 2012)

Javier Eguiluz — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:49:17 +0100

This week, Form and Validator were the most active components on the Symfony2 master branch. First, the CollectionValidator introduced new Optional and Required constraints. Second, the validation of form children was made configurable, meaning that child forms now aren't validated anymore by default (bc-break change).

Symfony2 development highlights

Master branch:

6641f3e, bf59018, 509c7bf, e6e3da5: [Validator] added constraints Optional and Required for the CollectionValidator
0c70a41, 43293f4: [Form] made validation of form children configurable. Set the option cascade_validation to true if you need it
0c18324: [HttpKernel] added extra information when collecting data from an object if that object implements a __toString()
693d1ec: [Form] do not render default ID attribute on empty form name
15c666b, d2a0c74, 9e55cda: added a recover-timeout option to allow recovering messages that have taken too long to send
0b7e2e0: support for DELETE method in forms
0513eb1: [Form] pass translation domain to the sub-forms when choice list is expanded

2.0.x branch:

cacc880: [Locale] fixed incomplete Locale data loading (sublocales returned only incomplete results for getDisplayCountries(), getDisplayLanguages() and getDisplayLocales())
959614b: use reflection to determine the correct path for component validation.xml file
a1317c3: [Locale] fixed breaking tests if 'intl' extension is not installed
1f733e1: updated Serbian translation for validators

Repository summary: 3,787 watchers (#1 in PHP, #26 overall) and 973 forks (#1 in PHP, #11 overall).

New plugins

asJqueryTreePropelManager: (no description)
sfCpGrid: is a javascript based backend for Symfony. It loads the recordset from the db via ajax, can sort it on the fly, it checks periodically if there is something new, it allows filtering and search, and to have custom buttons and related actions.

Updated plugins

sfGearman:
- allow to namespaces function for mutualized gearmand
apostrophe:
- slight change in linkage on aImage placeholders
- fixed bug with placeholder clicker box that looks for the choose button url in the correct place for both slots in areas and singleton slots
- smart slideshow passes new 'clickToSelect => false' option to placeholder, which prevents a 404 if you click the placeholder area on a smart slideshow
- factored out the slideshow slot code that relinks the related media items into a separate method so it can be easily called from overrides
apostropheBlog:
- slot help text doesn't need to get output to logged out visitors
- changed the check to editor privileges

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A week of symfony #263 (9->15 January 2012)

Javier Eguiluz — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:33:53 +0100

This week, Symfony2 master branch committed an important security-related and backwards-incompatible change: moved user comparison logic out of UserInterface. In addition, the winners of the first Symfony Community Awards were announced.

Symfony2 development highlights

Master branch:

9386583, 56db4a1, 3682f62, 9d3a49f, d7ffeb5, 2a74ac3: [Security] moved user comparison logic out of UserInterface (BC break)
ef6297a, a7f857d, 1ad3d86, f750e54, defdac6: removed a lot of unused variables
c0ad1ac: [HttpKernel] minor fixes in the Stopwatch
348a3c6: [TwigBridge] use reflection to get guess the file path for form resources

2.0.x branch:

b7a8f6d: harmonized commands descriptions
0507840: prevent parameters from overwriting the template filename
127cf52: [FrameworkBundle] updated Slovak validator messages
253eeba, 7f7c2a7: [Validator] fix for PHP incosistent behaviour of ArrayAccess
fe62401: optimized string starts with checks (doing this with strpos() is slightly faster than substr())
7f7f82a: [HttpKernel] removed unnecessary regex
efce640, 7961014: [Yaml] throw an exception if not readable
d67d419: [HttpFoundation] added missing trustProxy condition
af32590: [FrameworkBundle] use only _route_params to generate redirect routes

Repository summary: 3,748 watchers (#1 in PHP, #25 overall) and 965 forks (#1 in PHP, #11 overall).

Updated plugins

cpTcpdf:
- fixed watermark to support landscape page orientation
sfDoctrineActAsTaggable:
- pkInlineTaggableWidget sends change() events to the widget being enhanced
apostrophe:
- button slots have a new editLink option, which defaults to true. If you set it explicitly to false, the link field does not appear in the form
- button slot edit forms default to the title and link that were passed in by the template now, if any, rather than being initially blank
- the "You are still editing content. Are you sure you want to leave this page?" message is not displayed if the slot has the .a-no-unload-warning class
- aMediaItemTable::getEmbedCode now accepts an 'alt' option that overrides the use of the media item's title as the alt attribute
apostropheBlog:
- blog and event metadata forms track whether they have unsaved changes, so the new apostrophe.onBeforeUnload method in a.js can ask them

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Announcing the winner of the first Symfony Community Awards

Marc Weistroff — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:48:21 +0100

Here we are. The long awaited results of the first Symfony Community Awards are here. Don't scroll down yet! Please get your tuxedo first.

Nearly 300 members of the community voted for who they think deserve to be honored by their work. This year, a special emphasis was given on support and evangelism. These two topics are key to a sustainable development of our community.

We would like to thank you for your commitment and the hard work you're doing to make the Symfony community strong and proud.

Enough writing, here are the results:

2011 Best Blogger: Javier Eguiluz
2011 Best Mailing List Support: Christophe Coevoet
2011 Best Forum Support: Jon Hinks
2011 Best IRC Support: Dustin Dobervich
2011 Best Evangelist: Lukas Kahwe Smith
2011 Best Contributor: Ryan Weaver
2011 Personality of the year: Fabien Potencier

Keep up the good work and see you next year for another edition of the community awards.

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A week of symfony #262 (2->8 January 2012)

Javier Eguiluz — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:30:55 +0100

This week, the upcoming Symfony 2.1 version removed DoctrineBundle as it was migrated to the Doctrine organization. Meanwhile, Symfony2 components unveiled their brand-new documentation section. Lastly, Symfony 2.0.9 maintenance version was published to address some minor problems in 2.0.8.

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Symfony2 development highlights

Master branch:

2f47cca: [Propel1] added a PropelExtension. The propel extension allow to use propel specific type (ModelType) outside of Symfony2
254e49b: [FrameworkBundle] removed the possibility to pass a non-scalar attributes when calling render() to make the call works with or without a reverse proxy
cadf3d4: [HttpKernel] fixed doubled results for the file profiler
789d5ad: [FrameworkBundle] allowed attributes of the render() method to be arrays
c73e034: [TwigBridge] added missing transchoice filters when extracting translations from templates
7424e62: [TwigBridge] moved the default value for the translation domain to the Node compilation
2a5758f: [TwigBridge] allow the domain translation to be null when calling the trans and transchoice filters
ce6399e: [TwigBridge] added a way to specify a default domain for a Twig template (via the 'trans_default_domain' tag)
dcf209a: [DoctrineBundle] removed the bundle (migrated to the Doctrine organization)
83c23ca, 7ae9348: [HttpFoundation, Streaming] document and test that Transfer-Encoding is absent and do not set a Transfer-Encoding header of chunked
f4890c2: [Translation] Po/MoFileLoader parse plurization rules
0ed3497: [FrameworkBundle] updated Catalan validator translations
dcee6ff: [TwigBridge] improved test coverage
7e7244e: [Form] enabled empty root form name

2.0.x branch:

261325d: cast $query['params'] to array to ensure it is a valid argument when $query['params'] is null
208c2e4: removed the version attribute in all composer.json files
0492290: [Console] added a missing method
4f9b9eb, 3e9d937: released 2.0.9 version
9441c46: [DependencyInjection] fixed PhpDumper

Repository summary: 3,707 watchers (#1 in PHP, #24 overall) and 957 forks (#1 in PHP, #12 overall).

Updated plugins

cpTcpdf:
- fixed watermark
sw2DecorationToolkit:
- you now can have permissions on menu items so that they are not shown
- updated the readme for the advanced case of having attributes
sfSphinx:
- enhanced test script
apostrophe:
- added hasSlotType() to pluginapage and pluginaarea so I can ask either if they contain a slot type
- a.js has a global function called aLog() that's shorter and easier to type than apostrophe.log
- added aMediaAdmin class to media pages in the backend
- fixed defaults for cropping an image in a previously saved slideshow that was not cropped on the first save make no sense
- added a new 'uncropped' option to the aSlideshowSlot/slideshow component
- reconstructed the audio player to accommodate flexible columns
- new 'prepend' option to aAssets::compileLessIfNeeded() and aAssets::cexecute() specifies LESS code to be prepended to the content of the file to be compiled
apostropheBlog:
- app.yml setting to show excerpts in the blog index page

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Symfony 2.0.9 released

Fabien Potencier — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:46:49 +0100

Symfony 2.0.9 has been released earlier than expected to fix some annoying problems in 2.0.8:

it comes with Twig 1.5.1, which fixes a regression that made the form_theme tag fail;
it comes with a fix for the Filesystem class;
the composer.json file for 2.0.8 had the wrong version in it.

The CHANGELOG has all the details about the changes done in this release and you can also 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 2.0.9 by getting the new deps and deps.lock files.

Then, run the vendors script:

$ ./bin/vendors install

And don't forget to clear your cache:

$ php ./app/console cache:clear

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Learning about the Symfony Components

Ryan Weaver — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:11:46 +0100

If you visited us at Symfony Day Cologne or keep a close ear on the conversation around Symfony, then you already know that momentum and awareness is rapidly growing behind the components that make up Symfony. Sure, Symfony is a framework, but more fundamentally, it's a group of 20+ decoupled components, each of which can be used inside any PHP project (yes, even that old legacy app you maintain that just won't go away).

This flexibility is what makes things like Silex possible - a microframework built using several Symfony2 components. Drupal has also decided to adopt at least two of the Symfony components for Drupal 8 and feedback from their community has already been wonderful. The beauty is that this is exactly why the components where built: to be the basic building blocks of any PHP application or framework. The fact that they're also bringing different communities together is a great bonus.

But now we need your help! As a community, we've put a lot of work into the Symfony2 framework documentation. It's not perfect, but there's a lot of great resources. Now it's time to focus on documentation for the individual components.

Fabien already kicked things off by bootstrapping a new "components" section of the documentation. But there's a lot more to do! If you'd like to learn more about the Symfony2 components and give back at the same time, here's what you can do:

Check out the components tag on the symfony-docs GitHub repository for a current list of pending items
Choose a particular component, study its files, and bootstrap its docs! Follow the example of the other sections and get us started!
Read the existing component documentation, try things out, and let us know how we can make things better.

The goal, of course, is for a developer to be able to install, setup, and use each component in a meaningful way just by reading through some friendly docs. Sure, we've got a ways to go, but with your help, we can get there soon!

And if you're still reading (nice work!), remember that each time you can't find documentation or read an error message that's just not clear enough, there are hundreds others just like you. But when you add those docs or improve that error message, you stop the cycle and save countless hours. That's the beauty of a community like ours. Thanks.

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Symfony 2.1: The Doctrine bundle has moved to the Doctrine organization

Fabien Potencier — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:26:53 +0100

The Symfony2 DoctrineBundle has been moved to the Doctrine organization. This allows the bundle to be maintained in a more decoupled way from Symfony for several reasons:

No coupling of release cycles anymore;
Move code to the organization that actually maintains it;
Avoid Symfony suggesting Doctrine is the only way for persistence; Symfony wants to focus on providing the View and the Controller abstraction and not make suggestions about the Model.

The Symfony standard edition has been updated to reflect this change.

In your code, you will have to change references to the Doctrine classes; for instance, the Registry class must be changed from Symfony\Bundle\DoctrineBundle\Registry to Doctrine\Bundle\DoctrineBundle\Registry.

The DoctrineFixturesBundle, DoctrineMigrationsBundle and DoctrineMongoDBBundle are now maintained in the Doctrine organization as well; however forks have been created in the Symfony repository to make all the 2.0 apps out there backwards compatible (you just need to be check that your are using the 2.0 branch).

The new repositories are here:

You can find additional information about the move on the Doctrine blog.

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