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Upgrade to Symfony 1.2: Have your layouts stopped working?

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:05:09 +0000

I had a Symfony 1.0 app and I finally decided to make the leap to 1.2. Lo and behold, this mysterious error cropped up:

Notice: Undefined variable: site in /path/to/myproject/apps/site/templates/layout.php on line 10

If you’re upgrading from 1.0, you may suddenly notice that you get these “undefined variable” errors. That’s because global variables are deprecated in layouts as of Symfony 1.1, to be replaced with slots. Generally, a wise idea. More info here: http://trac.symfony-project.org/wiki/Symfony11LayoutUpgrade

Symfony, Doctrine, preSave and postSave

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:11:48 +0000

My new Symfony app calls a remote web service as part of the user creation process. Since this is intimately linked with the model (I want this behavior executed for my fixtures, too) it makes no sense to call the web service from the controller.

Like Ruby on Rails, Doctrine has some handy built-in hooks to execute code before and after saving a record. Here’s what my updated model looks like:

class sfGuardUser extends PluginsfGuardUser { public function preSave($obj){ some_voodoo_magic($this->get('id')); } public function postSave($obj){ call_my_special_webservice($this->get('id')); }
}

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admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:36:15 +0000

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