Symfony

Gedmo softdeletable is a nice aid to not fully delete database entries, but set deletedAt. I used this for a Symfony2 project, but unfortunately in once instance I needed to temporarily disable this feature. There seems to be a nice […]

I had 2 entities, “Category” and “DetailCategory”, with every DetailCategory having one Category. To make it easier in a form to select the right DetailCategory (which can have the same name in different categories), I wanted a dropdown with the […]

I have a form with an iframe target. The called url is the login_check in Symfony, to which I send _username and _password, to instantly log in. The problem: the Internet Explorer loses the cookies in an iframe. So I […]

I had a superclass User, which was inherited by a few subclasses: class Admin extends User { … } class Redakteur extends User { … } class Noob extends User { … } In my Controller I already know which […]

Whenever I changed js and css files, I used to execute an assets:install, simply because I didn’t know any better. This can be avoided by using a symlink in dev mode: php ./console assets:install ../web –env=dev –symlink

I wanted to make 2 Versions of certain pages, some with a layout and some without (for an overlay). When I tried {% if type == ‘page’ %} {% extends ‘Core::layout.html.twig’ %} {% endif %} it didn’t work and Symfony […]

The problem: there is a table with a field ranking, which is supposed to define a ranking. What this is supposed to do is rank the data in ascending order (ORDER BY ranking ASC), except for those which are NULL. […]

1. created a file called TheExtension.php with the following content: <?php namespace Something\Core\Extension\Twig; use Twig_Extension; use Twig_Filter_Method; class TheExtension extends Twig_Extension { public function getFilters() { return array( ‘cleanup’ => new Twig_Filter_Method($this, ‘cleanup’) ); } public function cleanup($txt){ $txt = […]

I have a bundle named ItemBundle and since an item has categories, I wanted a second controller called CategoryController within that bundle. To make symfony realize that this new controller exists, it seems to be necessary to mention it in […]