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Comment on Doctrine Gotchas – delete cascade, SoftDelete and foreignType by Russ

Russ — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:04:56 +0000

@Stereoscott: In symfony, either per application (via applicationConfiguration.class.php) or normally for the entire project (projectConfiguration.class.php). I’d be careful about doing it per class, because some methods will call other methods in other classes, which may then call other queries. Since dql callbacks are turned on you may get unexpected results – it’s better to know what to expect across your entire app. Saying that, I have had cases where I’ve had to turn callbacks off for a specific query, then immediately following the query I’ll turn the setting back to it’s original state.

$originalAttribute = Doctrine_Manager::getInstance()->getAttribute(Doctrine::ATTR_USE_DQL_CALLBACKS);
Doctrine_Manager::getInstance()->setAttribute(Doctrine::ATTR_USE_DQL_CALLBACKS, false);
 
// Query
 
Doctrine_Manager::getInstance()->setAttribute(Doctrine::ATTR_USE_DQL_CALLBACKS, $originalAttribute);

For the second point, you are right – the example does not really reflect a real life scenario, I’ll fix that in a bit!

Comment on Doctrine Gotchas – delete cascade, SoftDelete and foreignType by Stereoscott

Stereoscott — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:04:50 +0000

I really learned a lot from this post, thank you! I had a few questions: 1) using symfony where is a logical place to turn on DQL callbacks? In the global project configuration file? Or, is it ok to set it at the top of any methods in your class that rely on it? 2) in your “user has many payments” example, it looks to me like you’d end up with a single “payment_id” column in your user table… wouldn’t you rather just put a user_id in your payments table?

Comment on Symfony forms – Flexible widgets based on user credentials by Russ

Russ — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:19:57 +0000

@Hal: Yes it probably is ok to just use instanceof on its own here – I just get paranoid because a lot of php checking functions raise warnings and notices when they get the wrong types, or receive undeclared variables!

I wonder why I wrote that… I need to test it again… Maybe there was a better reason!

Comment on Symfony forms – Flexible widgets based on user credentials by hal

hal — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:47:16 +0000

Russ
This article has helped me greatly. Thank you for writing it.
Just one thing that I am curious about – why do you test the sfUser object using both “instance of” and is_object? Surely, “instance of” is enough?
All the best!
Hal

Comment on Symfony forms – Flexible widgets based on user credentials by Russ

Russ — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:26:37 +0000

@Alex: sfConfig::get() references the current loaded configuration, which is stored in a static array – so it is always available.

The array is populated during the application configuration and project configuration stages, which are normally done for any symfony process, including tasks, so if I’m not mistaken it’s pretty safe to use. it is worth mentioning though that it will never fail – because it will always return the provided default if it doesn’t find the set value.

Personally I’d try to inject any required settings into the forms’ options array also, but I haven’t come across an example yet so I’m keeping my options open for now!

Comment on Symfony forms – Flexible widgets based on user credentials by Alex

Alex — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:36:54 +0000

Hi Russ,

Thanks. I had been reading about this on the webmozart’s website as well. With you concrete example, I now changed all the forms!

I am wondering about dependency in the Symfony 2 mail function. Since it will be getting some settings with sfConfig(’app_XXX’), which has to know about the context to get the right APP. I guess the same goes for the nahoMailplugin….

Comment on Symfony sfGuardUser “remember me” checkbox/cookie does not work by charles

charles — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:15:55 +0000

Hi,

I’m concerned about this IP checking thing. Your solution worked like a charm for me but for a day only, since most ISPs renew their IPs each day when you get back to your site the day after your cookie value no longer matches your IP which has probably changed over night. I’m working on a solution that does not rely on your IP. Keep you guys posted…

Comment on PHP Session settings ignored? by Russ

Russ — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:52:48 +0000

ok, fixed Of course symfony always sets this value in php based on the setting in factories.yml and therein lies the problem!

Comment on PHP Session settings ignored? by Hannes Magnusson

Hannes Magnusson — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:03:32 +0000

No no..
Its not regardless what you have in php.ini. It does respect php.ini, just nothing else
Setting this option in httpd.conf, .htaccess, or in PHP script doesn’t work on Debian based systems

Comment on Symfony sfGuardUser “remember me” checkbox/cookie does not work by saturn1

saturn1 — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:21:15 +0000

Thank you, very usefull