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by Thomas Beutel

Category: Symfony

A short blurb on using sfGuardPlugin credentials

(Here are a few notes I made to myself about the credential system.)
Credentials are part of the sfGuardPlugin security system for Symfony. For some reason, Symfony also refers to credentials as permissions. As far as I can tell, the two terms are used interchangeably.
sfGuardUser records are stored in the sf_guard_user table.
The tables in [...]

Meta refresh in Symfony – use view.yml

The easiest way I’ve found to add meta refresh to a specific action in Symfony is to use the view.yml file. Note that I use http_metas, not regular metas.
indexSuccess:
http_metas:
refresh: 300
which results in adding the following, as you would expect:
<meta http-equiv=”Refresh” content=”300″ />

Symfony project menus for Emacs

After reading the Productive Programmer, I was inspired to write a custom script to add Symfony menus to my Emacs editor. After some frustration (I find emacs LISP tough to grok), I finally figured it out. (script is below)
Anyway, here are a couple of pictures showing custom menus for a small project. This allows me [...]