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Symfony + Doctrine Book Now Available

Hot on the heels of the official Symfony 1.2 Release comes the new Symfony + Doctrine book: On this day we want to give you another great present, the symfony + Doctrine Book which documents the specific functions of the integration between symfony and Doctrine as well as some commonly used Doctrine functionality. (Via the [...]

Symfony 1.2 Released Alongside a New Advent Calendar Tutorial

Symfony 1.2 stable has been officially released: As our early Christmas present, we finalized the 1.2 release of symfony after some weeks of hard work. Be sure to check out what’s new in Symfony 1.2 as well as the upgrade instructions for upgrading from Symfony 1.1. If you’re upgrading from 1.0, it is recommended [...]

Symfony 1.2 Release Candidate Now Available

In case you missed it (like I did), the Symfony 1.2 Release Candidate is now available: Being a release candidate now means that we are no longer doing any changes besides bug fixing and documentation, lots of documentation. Of course with very good reason we do an exception but generally that’s it. This means [...]

Simple Symfony Login Form Example

There are times when I just need a simple login form that checks for a certain username and password combination in order to lockdown a backend administration interface. The new sfForm sub-framework in Symfony 1.1/1.2 makes it really easy to reuse a Form class for this. If you’re unfamiliar with the new sfForm sub-framework, you [...]

Leveraging the OnChange Event of Inputs with jQuery

This may be obvious, but it’s something that’s easily overlooked. Text inputs, like select fields, have an onChange handler that can be leveraged to detect when a field has been (you guessed it…) changed. This may not seem like a big deal, but it really helps when, for example, you’re trying to keep track of [...]