November 2010

Software Updates

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I just wanted to make a quick post to update everyone on the progress I've been making on my symfony plugins.

majaxDoctrineMediaPlugin (github repository and symfony plugin)

A number of things have happened here:

  1. It's now in the symfony plugin repository!
  2. All of it's dependencies have been properly configured in the pear package.xml
  3. It gained concurrency support to keep from wasting CPU and mangling the files it processes.

majaxPheanstalk (github repository and symfony plugin)

It is now in the symfony plugin repository!

majaxJqueryPlugin (github repository and symfony plugin)

It is now in the symfony plugin repository!

majaxMarkdownPlugin (github repository and symfony plugin)

It is now in the symfony plugin repository!

A simple example on how to use post validators in symfony

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Someone came into the #symfony channel on freenode asking how to add conditional validators that would require a text box to be filled out when a checkbox was ticked. As I realize this is a common question (though the circumstances may change), I wanted to put this example up here as well, for others.

Here's the example:

class TestForm
{
  public function configure()
  {
    // ... snip ...
 
    $this->validatorSchema->setPostValidator(
      new sfValidatorCallback(array('callback' => array($this, 'contextualChecks')))
    );
  }
 
  public function contextualChecks($validator, $values)
  {
    if ($values['checkbox_1'] == 1)
    {
      if ($values['textbox_for_checkbox_1'] == '')
      {
        $error = new sfValidatorError($validator, 'Field is required when Checkbox 1 is checked.');
        $ves = new sfValidatorErrorSchema($validator, array('textbox_for_checkbox_1' => $error));
        throw $ves;
      }
    }
    return $values;
  }
}

Note: I completely left out returning $values in the initial draft. I apologize!

Jack and the majaxPheanstalk

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I have just made my first release to GitHub, majaxPheanstalkPlugin for symfony 1.4.x (possibly will work on older ones). It's a set of tools that help to access Beanstalkd and make building workers much simpler.

It builds off of the work of Paul Annesley (pda)'s pheanstalk which provides a simple php library for accessing a Beanstalkd server.

The goal is to provide you with simple tools for managing your Beanstalkd integration. Right now it's just worker thread tools and a simple factory, but I hope to grow it into a more complete library as time goes on.

Keeping pace

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Alright, I understand that in order to keep people checking back regularly, I have to post regularly.

I get that.

I really do!

Sometimes, though, life just takes over. I'm working on making that better.

To that end: Did anyone else attend the Day Camp 4 Developers session last weekend? If not, you missed a real riot. The speakers were excellent, and the crowd in IRC was just awesome.