http://kiwwito.com/articles en May 18 2012 19:11:43 May 18 2012 19:11:43 kiwwito generator 1.0 keyvan@kiwwito.com keyvan@kiwwito.com December 05 2011 00:00:00 http://kiwwito.com/article/less-css-with-assetic-and-symfony-2 extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions.For the LESS Assetic filter we need to have installed first , the npm package manager and the LESS library. Under Ubuntu you can install all of those in an easy way through the terminal: Install the LESS library: [...] http://kiwwito.com/article/less-css-with-assetic-and-symfony-2 December 04 2011 00:00:00 http://kiwwito.com/article/minify-css-and-js-files-with-assetic-and-symfony2 Unify all our CSS and JS stuff into unique minified files improves significantly your application performance.Thanks to the Assetic Symfony2 bundle you can do it on the fly.First, , unzip it and move the "yuicompressor-*.jar" to the "app/Resources/java" folder.Connect Assetic with the compressor [...] http://kiwwito.com/article/minify-css-and-js-files-with-assetic-and-symfony2 December 03 2011 00:00:00 http://kiwwito.com/article/make-public-mysql-server-under-linux For security reasons when you install into your Linux distro (Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.) a MySQL server, it was only accessible by the loopback or local environment. If you want to access through the network to it you have to configure it.We have to edit your "/etc/my.conf" and add/edit the next lines: [...] http://kiwwito.com/article/make-public-mysql-server-under-linux October 18 2011 00:00:00 http://kiwwito.com/article/install-google-chrome-on-ubuntu-11-10 Some libs was were included in previous versions of Ubuntu, on the new release 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) are missing. If you try to install the Google Chrome .deb package for Ubuntu it may raise an error. The real problem are the not installed dependencies.Once , you have to install them manually [...] http://kiwwito.com/article/install-google-chrome-on-ubuntu-11-10 October 02 2011 00:00:00 http://kiwwito.com/article/i18n-in-twig-extensions-with-symfony-2 First of all we have to connect our Twig extension with the translation service. We have to configure the dependency injection container to do that.Prepare the dependency injection container to load the configuration from an XML file Connect the Twig extension engine with the translator service [...] http://kiwwito.com/article/i18n-in-twig-extensions-with-symfony-2 September 28 2011 00:00:00 http://kiwwito.com/article/sluggable-timestampable-etc-in-symfony-2 In Symfony 2, we can attach this useful behaviours to our model through doctrine extensions. One bundle, , offers a lot of them: , , , y .The above extensions allow, among other things, to transform usual strings into friendly ones, great for URLs (Sluggable), database i18n support (Translatable), [...] http://kiwwito.com/article/sluggable-timestampable-etc-in-symfony-2 September 06 2011 00:00:00 http://kiwwito.com/article/unable-to-write-cache-file-problem-in-symfony-2 One common issue in Symfony 2 projects is that the "app/cache" and "app/logs" directories must be writable both by the web server and the command line user. On a UNIX system, if your web server user is different from your command line user, you can run the following commands just once in your [...] http://kiwwito.com/article/unable-to-write-cache-file-problem-in-symfony-2 August 20 2011 00:00:00 http://kiwwito.com/article/fixtures-in-symfony-2 The fixtures is a data configuration for our Symfony 2 project, is a simple but a powerful way to load into the database default or required information for the correct execution of the application. Often, in the development phase, the model changes or even dropped, as the recovery comes tedious [...] http://kiwwito.com/article/fixtures-in-symfony-2 August 16 2011 00:00:00 http://kiwwito.com/article/add-third-party-libraries-to-symfony-2 Adding libraries that follows the PHP 5.3.+ with namespaces is trivial, but how we can add an old PHP library without namespaces?For example, if we want to add a library like which haves an old style format (lower than 5.3.+), not follows the standards and it not have namespaces, we have to do a [...] http://kiwwito.com/article/add-third-party-libraries-to-symfony-2 August 15 2011 00:00:00 http://kiwwito.com/article/extending-twig-in-symfony-2-add-custom-functions Sometimes we need to add some custom functions to the view. In Symfony 1 we have the helpers, in Symfony 2 we must extend Twig in order to add it.At first, we have to connect our future Twig extension to the Dependency Injection Container in our Bundle. If we don't got any config file we have to [...] http://kiwwito.com/article/extending-twig-in-symfony-2-add-custom-functions