Questions tagged [symfony2]

Symfony2 is an open source PHP web development framework for PHP 5.3.9+ focusing on easy and fast development cycles and including state-of-the-art design patterns and programming philosophies. Symfony should not be confused with Symphony CMS

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PHP routing system

I made a routing system for PHP inspired by Symfony's router composed of a few classes. First I am using Symfony's HTTP Foundations component. Then, I am emulating the classes in the routing component ...
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Redirecting the web client after deleting an item

In my web-app, it is possible to delete an Item when visiting any of 4 different pages: the Show Item page the Edit Item page the List Items page the List Items in Room page If the visitor uses a ...
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Symfony controller to register and activate users

I've been in an interview some time ago. They objected my Symfony API code with following line: Too much code in controller actions. Can be moved to services to keep the business logic apart ...
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Model database for contract renewal

I have made a contract renewal system in Symfony and Doctrine, and it works, but I think it can be improved, but I make too many requests to the database. These are my models: ...
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Updating data on a blog

I want to make post editing on my blog. I get data from a form and want to put it into a database. I'm not sure if using setters is the best way, so maybe you can show me better solution? ...
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Trait accessing variables of classes using it

I just tried PHP Traits for the first time, to keep my code DRY : ...
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Migrate data between tables efficiently

I wrote a very simple quick and easy script to migrate a bunch of data to another table in my database. Can I accomplish this task without using so many foreach loops? I realize I'm imputting ...
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MVC controller and action that handles favorite items in a session-based list

I've written a Controller and a corresponding Action for a Symfony 2.8 project, that does the following: handles a list of favorite items of a user the ids of the favorites are stored in the session ...
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Doctrine/Symfony WHERE clause for reports

I'm trying to generate a report from two doctrine entities. The fields to filter the report are optional. This is the code I've got now and it looks really bad to me. How can I improve this? ...
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Preventing XSS in a Symfony form to add a timetable entry

I have started to implement cross site scripting prevention (xss) within my code. However as I am using symfony for this particular project I have read up that nothing needs to be done for xss in ...
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Validating user credentials and logging into a Symfony site

I have the following code in a Symfony site that validates a user's credentials and logs them in via the Session class: ...
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Using a separate class in Symfony to handle a list of entities with controller injection

In my Symfony (v2.7.9) project I have a set of entities which share some view functionality i.e being displayed in a table with some of their values as columns. Following the separation of concerns ...
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Get similar posts with manyToMany relationship

I have a table post with a many-to-many relationship with the tag and product tables. ...
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Silex - Guzzle call to external API

I'm at the point where I am happy with the functionality of my code but I dislike how its written. It seems like I can be more modular with it but I can't seem to figure out how to improve on it ...
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Linking to an image asset from a JavaScript file in Symfony 2

I am calling a JS file from a bundle directory like so: <script src="{{ asset('bundles/macppages/js/main.js') }}"></script> which loads the JS file ...
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Inserting and updating data for a website monitoring app

I have created an app in which URLs stored in a database are pinged via curl to check their availability and the database is updated with the results. Two tables are updated with each fresh ping of a ...
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Shuffle Symfony entities

I've got an object $contest which is a Symfony entity that has some other entities assigned. I can get them by ...
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Fetching objects and adding a calculated field in Doctrine 2

I'm making a section that shows a list of blogs and how many comments it has without loading any comment data. My Blog entity is as follows: ...
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Logging and getting the response in a controller

I have an action that does two things: It sends a chain of commands, and gets the response from an external API that we call wrapper. It logs the chain of commands ...
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Tag manipulation using DOMDocument

On our main symfony2 application at work I have had to manipulate some outputted grid fields by wrapping them in a hyperlink tag. This happens in quite a few different controllers, so I made a method ...
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View helper for creating HTML elements with DOM

I have attempted to create a view helper class which makes programmatically creating HTML strings less verbose and hopefully simpler. This is inspired by the tag helpers in Rails. It's compatible ...
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Uploading a file using Symfony 2.5 strictly

Recently I have been looking into Symfony framework and I am working on a task where I need to upload a file using a form. Once the form has been submitted I need to insert the user input along with ...
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Which pattern could help to refactor this controller code?

I know I should use services and patterns to refactor this controller action, but I can't imagine one that could fit/be appropriate for this problem. It seems a strategy or template, but a strategy ...
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Checking if a relationship exists

I'm using a many-to-many relationship between users and roles with propel: ...
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Uploading file for related entity

I see that my code smells. The first file is a controller, and createAction. But I don't know where to delegate this. BookController.php - Whole controller class So this is most 'smelly' code to ...
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Building a console application using a DI service container

I am working on a project that will allow developers to create a console application using a dependency injection service container. Both the console and container are Symfony components with some ...
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Unit-testing ExtFilterParser Symfony2 service

The Service: ...
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Database "design" using Symfony2 and Doctrine2

I'm working on an application, which tracks expenses. I have users, and each user can create his categories for the expenses (like Food, Bills, Transport, Drinks, Clothes) and then create expenses - ...
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Handling library entity

Below you'll find a Symfony2 service I wrote to assist in handling the Library entity. Each user in my app has a personal library where one can upload items to and a purchased library, that contains ...
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Friends edit form

I have a list of friends and new friends are added via a form. When you click on a friend you see all the information about him. There is also an Edit button. When clicking it, I want a form to be ...