Since discussing writing Silex service providers a few edge cases have come up that I'd like to touch on. I've also learned more about controller providers and how they fit into the big picture. Here are a few more rules and guidelines to help make writing Silex service providers and controller providers a little …
I'm a huge fan of PHP-FIG. I take part where I think I can make a constructive contribution and I try to tune in to as many of the discussions as my time allows. So when I saw Larry's poll about the Focus of FIG I was happy to have the opportunity to …
So you've gotten to the point in your Silex application that you want to start breaking it out into modular pieces. Silex service providers to the rescue! The service provider interface appears to be really simple but do you know which things can safely be done in each method? First, a high level overly …
A common requirement when writing service providers for Pimple based projects is to provide default values for some or all of the configuration parameters. Unfortunately, this is not as straightforward as it sounds. Update: And just like that, the whole premise of this blog post became moot. Thanks Igor! On one hand it is nice …
I have been interested in decentralized social networks for awhile now. It wasn't until recently that I found a project I could really get behind. That project is Tent. After idling on tent.is for several months and watching in envy as the likes of @beberlei showed off projects like Zelten I finally decided to throw …
Django's ModelChoiceField only allows for a string label for each individual choice. While it can be customized to allow for a user to change what that string should look like it is still limited to being just a string. In my project I wanted to have the choices built out in a more …
The Kernel is the heart of the Symfony system. It manages an environment made of bundles. — Symfony's Kernel Docblock One of the best things that happened to Sculpin was Rob Loach suggesting it support Symfony's Bundle interface for plugins. What started out as an interesting experiment in trying to bolt Bundles …
I don't know exactly when I first started working on Sculpin but the first commit to the 1.0 branch was made exactly one year ago today. I wanted to do something special to celebrate but time has run out. So, happy birthday Sculpin! It has been a crazy year. Thanks for the fun times …
It is my opinion that embedding gists in a blog is a generally bad idea, unless you are writing on a site with terrible code support. — Brandon Mathis takes a stand on embedding Gists Last week GitHub released a pretty new version of Gist. Huzzah! Oh wait, it broke …
What started out as an RFC for adding a Console Service Provider to Silex resulted in a few fun personal discoveries. First, Pimple is useful beyond just Silex. I came to understand that most of the "Silex" code I have been writing has really been generic service providers. There really was nothing tying them …
for me the point of having my blog as a static site is mainly easy deployment I don't have to worry about even configuring PHP I just put html on a web server and boom! instant win — Igor Wiedler wins One question I get asked pretty frequently …
I recently ran into a hidden limitation in Symfony's Finder component. The find backed adapters use -mmin to do their "modified since" comparing and not the PHP based date comparator like I had assumed. This is important because it turns out -mmin is only accurate to a minute. The problem showed up in Sculpin. …
Although my workday has been filled with Python and Django, my early mornings and late nights have been filled with working on several personal PHP projects. One of the projects that has finally been getting some love again is Sculpin, my PHP static site generator. Sculpin is a PHP static site generator built around Symfony's HTTP …
I wanted to trash and recreate a PostgreSQL from scratch. PostgreSQL roles and security stuff are still a bit weird to my MySQL brain, so it took awhile to find an easy way to accomplish this: sudo -u postgres dropdb dbname I'm sure there are other ways to do this but this seems to …
One common misconception about silex and microframeworks in general is that they are only suited for small, simple apps, APIs and prototyping. Of course, those use cases are the main selling point, but they are by no means the limit of what is possible. — …
One of the barriers to convert users into contributors in an open-source projects is that many people have no idea where to start. They are usually scared to take on large tasks because they are not comfortable enough with the code-base. Yet I think there …
Early into my adventures with Django I saw a few references to Lincoln Loop. Turns out they have provided some pretty decent Django materials including Django Best Practices. I had seen some references to Django Loop's django-startproject which referenced the Django Best Practices. However, the Best Practices actually say to start a project with django-layout …
Patch mode allows you to stage parts of a changed file, instead of the entire file. This allows you to make concise, well-crafted commits that make for an easier to read history.
This is one of those things you wish someone told you about a long time ago. Actually seeing it in action is pretty helpful as I might have ignored it otherwise.
As often happens, I committed composer.lock when I had not actually intended to do so. Igor broke out the following after I went through a whole lot of stupid things on my own. Thanks Igor. :) git reset HEAD~1 filename && git commit --amend …
I wanted to set a sane default number of rows for fields.TextArea in forms.py but wanted to be able to override that value from a view based on whether or not the view was going to be rendered as a modal. The solution: form.fields['some_field'].widget.attrs['rows'] = 8 …