Any website has forms, from the simple contact form to the complex ones with lots of fields. Writing forms is also one of the most complex and tedious task for a web developer: you need to write the HTML form, … Continue reading →

Uploadify (currently on version 3.1.0) has the option to send the session name and id to the upload script so you can secure the action handling this in Symfony. But to make Symfony 1.4 use the session id send by … Continue reading →

Functional tests are a great tool to test your application from end to end: from the request made by a browser to the response sent by the server. They test all the layers of an application: the routing, the model, … Continue reading →

Tests in Symfony2 There are two different kinds of automated tests in symfony: unit tests and functional tests. Unit tests verify that each method and function is working properly. Each test must be as independent as possible from the others. … Continue reading →

Today we will make the Category page like it is described in the second day’s requirements: “The user sees a list of all the jobs from the category sorted by date and paginated with 20 jobs per page“. The Category … Continue reading →

The Doctrine Query Object From the second day’s requirements: “On the homepage, the user sees the latest active jobs.” But as of now, all jobs are displayed, whether they are active or not: An active job is one that was … Continue reading →

In the previous post we created a zip file from a folder using PHP. Now, if you want to send the zip archive file to the browser so users can download it, use the following code: The same method can … Continue reading →