PHP/MySQL web applications, Symfony and jQuery tips & tricks…
Morning in the den arrived the same way it always did: smoke, stone, and the taste of old ash.
I woke before anyone else because I had trained myself to. Sleep was a weakness if you let it pull you under. It softened edges. It made you reach for warmth you didn’t have.
When doing Magento optimization, developers are often finding ways to boost performance by turning off some of the core modules that are not needed. There are multiple sites that provide recommendations on what modules should be disabled if not needed. Weee was one of them.
During development of payment method I encountered one issue related to this.
This post describes the steps necessary for creating an Magento Observer
In order to create a virtual subdomain in PHP, the following conditions must be fulfilled:
– enabled Apache’s Mod_rewrite module
– existing wildcard DNS record
– properly configured .htaccess file
When using Symfony frontend application it is sometimes necessary to access other application’s routing to create an internal url that points to that application.
In order for that to be posssible, a method for getting the desired application’s routing is required.
Although you can always customize Symfony’s form by using templates, it is not necesarily the most practical solution. You might want to customize the way Symfony renders the form somewhere where the HTML structure is being generated in the first place. That’s where the form formatter comes in.
Recently, I’ve been asked (yet again) by my superiors to use a templating engine on my project. The main reason for this was so that end users can edit the application templates more easily.
Therein lies the first reason:
This post describes how to create new relation by usin jQuery Autocompleter widget in Symfony project.
Recently, I’ve had a situation where I had to create a form for entering a product details, with a dropdown or autocomplete input for selecting product’s brand. If a user entered a non-existing brand, it had to be automatically created and assigned to product that the user was editing.