Javier Eguiluz
3 months ago
A week of symfony
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Unbelievable week for symfony: more than 200 changesets committed and 60 bugs fixed, great symfony 1.1 development activity, lots of symfony 1.0.x fixes, 3 new plugins released, nearly 20 plugins updated, 1.0.17 version released and lots of cookbook tutorials translations published.

Development mailing list

Discussions about sfForm and Iterator interface, new Forms being default in symfony 1.1 and planned changes in the admin generator

Development highlights

r9755, r9756: [1.0, 1.1] fixed coding standard + typo
r9757: [1.1] added truncate options to auto_link_text text helper
r9770, r9771: [1.0, 1.1] fixed possible notice in generator config handler
r9774: [1.1] added extension depedencies to pear package
r9777, r9784: [1.0, 1.1] fixed autoload paths on windows
r9778: [1.1] added support for highlighting multiple phrases in highlight_text
r9787: [1.1] removed remaining 'noxsd' occurrences
r9789: [1.1] re-added getCurrentRouteName to sfPatternRouting class
r9790: [1.1] fixed PH_EOL in phpmailer for 1.1
r9793: [1.1] fixed error reporting value for the test environment and added a migration task
r9802: [1.1] fixed sfMemcacheCache ignores multi-memcache-server configuration and defaults to localhost
r9805, r9806: [1.0, 1.1] fixed i18n XLIFF do not handle entities correctly
r9829, r9830: [1.0, 1.1] backported encoding fix for MySQLiConnection from creole trac. fixes
r9832, r9833: [1.0] fixed issue with incorrect calculation of uri prefix (now using http_host)
r9834: [1.1] sfWebRequest->isSecure now recognizes HTTP_SSL_HTTPS option correctly
r9835: [1.1] added a sfValidatorTime that works for time types in schema.yml
r9846, r9847: [1.0, 1.1] added generation of a .zip file when creating a sandbox
r9853: [1.1] fixed I18N timestamp handling
r9855, r9857: [1.0] fixed generated admin returning to first page regardless on which page the edit was started
r9856, r9858: [1.0, 1.1] removed double licenses from gettext files (with the permission of Qiang Xue)
r9859: [1.1] fixed CRUD templates when using the --with-show option
r9860: [1.1] fixed identifier name length check for Propel Generator
r9861, r9862: [1.0, 1.1] fixed getColumnFilterTag() component type
r9864: [1.1] fixed problem with sfPropel class initialization
r9878: [1.1] renamed sfForm::getFormField() to sfForm::getFormFieldSchema()
r9886: [1.1] cleaned sfMessageSource_XLIFF
r9887: [1.1] added a retry mechanism to sfMessageSource_XLIFF->save() that will recreate incorrect xml files
r9888: [1.1] fixed Propel behavior registration when using functional tests or built-in tasks
r9890: [1.1] fxed locking issues with the cache:clear, project:disable, project:enable and log:rotate tasks
r9893: [1.0] fixed locking issues with the clear-cache, log-rotate, enable, and disable tasks
r9892, r9894: [1.0, 1.1] fixed PHPMailer issue with UTF-8 subject being wrapped in middle of utf-8 char
r9897: [1.1] added a min and a max option for sfValidatorDate
r9906: [1.1] fixed m2m propel data loading
r9922: [1.1] fixed genurl() with relative_url_root parameter set
r9925: [1.1] added the widget when calling the formatter for the sfWidgetDormSelectRadio widget
r9926: [1.1] fixed addSortCriteria case sensitive problem
r9942: [1.1] added sfSession::regenerate and added calls on authentication/credential change to protect against session fixation attacks
r9944: [1.1] fixed sfForm::toString() silence exceptions
r9945, r9947: [1.1] fixed 404 page when raised by a non existant route
r9956, r9957: [1.0, 1.1] fixed convertUrlStringToParameters breaks urlencoded parameter
r9959, r9960: [1.0, 1.1] fixed gpc_magic_qutes and array in cookie
r9966: [1.1] moved _convert_options() function to TagHelper as FormHelper is not always loaded (when sf_compat is off for example)
r9967: [1.1] moved get_id_from_name() function to TagHelper as FormHelper is not always loaded (when sf_compat is off for example)
r9968: [1.1] removed FormHelper dependency for JavaScript helpers
r9969: [1.0] changed escaping of metas (and title) from htmlspecialchars to htmlentities to preserve intended encoding
Completed Milestone 1.0.17
Updated dwhittle branch
...and many other changes

Development digest: 209 changesets, 49 defects created, 62 defects closed, 8 enhancements created, 20 enhancements closed, 4 documentation defects created, 10 documentation defects closed and 60 documentation edits.

Book and documentation

Created TinyGeshi french page
Updated How to upgrade your project, Presentations about symfony, Coding symfony with Vim pages
Added spanish translation of the first chapter of forms book: Creación de formularios
Added some french translations of cookbook tutorials: Comment paginer une liste
Added some japanese translations of cookbook tutorials: ウェブサーバーの設定をする方法, IIS上でsymfonyをインストールする
Added some hungarian translations of cookbook tutorials: Hogyan állítsuk be a web szervert (Apache), Propel 1.3 használata symfony 1.1 alatt, Hogyan szabjuk testre az alapértelmezett könyvtárstruktúrát
Added portuguese translation of cookbook tutorials: Como escrever um schema do Propel com a sintaxe alternativa

Wiki

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- Aaron Hall (adhall [at] gmail.com): US-based web developer with 4 years professional experience, PHP/MySQL application development expertise, a diverse skillset and several Symfony-based applications in production.
New symfony blogger:
- SymfonyNerds (website, feed)
- Matthew Bull (website, feed)

Plugins

New plugins
- isicsBreadcrumbsPlugin: another plugin for handling breadcrumbs
- sfCaptchaGDPlugin: create captchas using GD library
- sfSWFUploadPlugin: offers helpers for simple use and configuration of SWFUpload, a multi upload system in flash and javascript
Updated plugins
- sfExtjsThemePlugin: restored related drop-down combo-boxes, restored autocompletion and sorting for related-comboboxes, start of splitting out combobox from foreignFieldColumn, added editable check for comboboxes, resolved some issues where unncessary renderer and editor parameters were being set to foreignkeycolums that were editable, fix for hidden related columns, fix scope of combo-autoload, added relatedFieldName property, fixed some editor-popup-window properties, changed _edit_ajax_form method-definitions, added setting of namespace to addSortCriteria and processSort to fix the sorting problem with executeJsonAutocomplete, reimplemented related-combos (changed prevent changing focus, to allow adding new relted items from pop-up, changed renderers, improved preloading to combo-store), reimplemented edit-pages, moved combo-store definition from foreignFieldColumn to comboBoxAutoLoad.js, corrected the naming and namespaces on some files and overrides, added Ext.ux.form.Checkbox back into default config as it makes checkboxes much nicer, changed implementation for tinyMCE + new plugin, implemented fieldset, added symfony-ajax-debugger integration
- sfPropelPlugin: fixed admin_double_list cannot handle objects of the same class, fixed include path for behaviors, added mixins for doCount in doCountJoin, fixed path to base class in forms, added support for propel 1.3 nested sets, fixed tests, updated fixtures settings, fixed m2m fixtures, fixed sort criteria case sensitivity, fixed sfPhing for phing 2.3
- sfGuardPlugin: fixed remember me functionality
- dgDojoPlugin: updated documentation
- sfAssetsLibraryPlugin: improved Windows compatibility, fixed wrong exception parameter, fixed untranslated exception messages
- sfFeed2Plugin: added Image support to sfFeed2Plugin
- sfXssSafePlugin: migrated to htmlpurifier 3.1.1, released 0.6.1 version
- sfPropelPlanetPlugin: added a new author column in entry schema, updated according templates (breaks BC), added strict requirements to bundled routes, added CDATA clauses in RSS tags to avoid problems with entities, added simple css theme settings, added the planet:feed-purge task to purge entries older than a given date or amount of time
- sfDoctrinePlugin: locked Doctrine externals to a tag
- sfPropelSlotBehaviorPlugin: released 0.1.4 version
- sfExtjs2Plugin: added quote except for scope key, fixed recursion error for items-surrouding (they where not surrounded with [] but with {})
- sfDynamicCMSPlugin: fix bug with requirements & i18n activated for routing.yml generation
- sfPropelImpersonatorPlugin: backported trunk patch on 1.0 stable branch
- sfPropelFinderPlugin: added sfPropelFinder::withColumn() method, withColumn() automatically adds missing joins, added sfPropelFinder::findFirst() and sfPropelFinder::findLast() methods, added sfPropelFinder::relatedTo() method, made findLast() accept a column parameter, added sfPropelFinder::findByXXX() and sfPropelFinder::findOneByXXX() methods, sfPropelFinder::from() now accepts an array of Propel objects
- sfGuardDoctrinePlugin: use trunk/ instead of 1.1-branch with sf 1.1, since 1.1-branch doesn't work with sf 1.1
- sfPhotoGalleryPlugin: released 0.1.3 and 0.1.4 versions
- sfAdvancedAdminGeneratorPlugin: added one-to-many foreign_class auto setting feature (nesting, rest), added conditions to object_actions tag
- sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin: merged all changes and added the "unique" parameter, released 0.4 version
- sfLucenePlugin: fixed better routing, fixed readme to explain how to enable propel behaviors

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