For questions about Symfony, a free PHP web application framework.
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What is the way to make an internal API
I have a Symfony project.
I want to make this project API based, but also with a Web UI.
So, I have 2 Bundles, ApplicationBundle and WebUiBundle.
In Application Bundle, I have application, domain ...
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When error is it good to send different formats?
On a REST api I have these endpoints:
GET: /tracks.json
GET: /tracks.xml
GET: /tracks.csv
It receives a tracks resourse and the format gets defined by .^string^ that is after the resourse. eg the ...
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php CMS from scratch vs open source
Problem: We have to develop a CMS for our sites. The sites are kind of different, but they have common parts. We need to use our external user system and permissions, the menus are different for each ...
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Is it a good practice to load Models as a service like I do when I use Symfony framework?
Usually on Symnfony framework I use the provided depedency Injection container and on Controller I load the models as a service. To be more In detail on a current project I am having the following ...
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How to consume external RESTful API with Symfony?
We are building a Microservice architecture for our projects, with mostly front-end Symfony applications interacting with back-end RESTful APIs.
The problem is this approach is breaking the Symfony ...
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How to improve my workflow (git, symfony, composer, bower, grunt)?
It's time to improve my workflow. I never had the responsibility of setting up the infrastructure, managing git, versions or releases. For me it was simple push/pull most of the time and I think, the ...
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Should I stick a service in a variable or reference it multiple times
This is more of a micro-optimisation question which is why I posted it here rather than StackOverflow.
I have many instances of this sort of code in my Symfony 2 application where I get the ...
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Symfony2 - Best aproach for a plugin system
Symfony2 is handling all its things in bundles in /app or in /vendor. This is fine if you are handling and managing all by yourself or Ops that handle all needed things.
But I haven't found a good ...
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object configured by another class
Below I describe what I'm trying to do and how I think I will do it. What I'm hoping is that a design pattern exists for using one object to configure another. This would allow me to have a nice ...
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Symfony 2 Multi tenancy architecture, data loaded form front controller/kernel based on subdomain
Hello fellow programmers,
(a bit of background)I'm building a Symfony 2 application for university Student accommodation, when our clients from the university side register with their details a ...
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How to handle karma/bower in a Symfony Bundle on github?
i am working on a Symfony Bundle that uses angular among other javascript deps.
Now i want to unit-test my javascript code and i want to ship those tests as well.
My initial idea was to add bower....
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Possible to refactor these methods that contain the same logical flow?
I have many methods in many repositories that have the same logical flow:
Retrieve value from Cache
Check value
If no value, fetch from Database
Update Cache
Return value
Is there a way to ...
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Roles configuration strategy
We're close to start new project using sf2, and, probably, FosUserBundle.
Keeping that in mind - what's the best strategy to define roles? App will be used by multiple divisions inside our company (...
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Multiple intranet/internet systems partially working on same data - database strategy
We are starting rewritting our apps (Internet portal, millions of unique users and few CRM/ERP systems, few hundred users) and we have a huge decision to make now. We are going to write them mostly (...
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Repository Pattern: Doctrine2 vs Microsoft Entity Framework?
I have been using Symfony2 with Doctrine2 for some years. I have recently started using Microsoft's Entity Framework with MVC5. From my Symfony2 experience I understand that a repository's job is only ...
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PHP OOP - Getters / setters vs. database storing
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I am trying to optimize the architecture of my web-application developed in PHP using the Symfony framework.
I have an object "pool" that contains "swimmers". I need to display the number of ...
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Where should the database and mail parameters be stored in a Symfony2 app?
In the default folder structure for a Symfony2 project the database and mail server credentials are stored in parameters.yml file inside ProjectRoot/app/config/parameters.yml with these default values:...
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How to implement multi-theme PHP application
I am developing an application which will handle many virtual stores and I would like to have many themes that the user could choose anytime. I would to know what's the main ideia to implement it. I ...
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Pushing a new version of a live web application in a Git based workflow
I have a question regarding workflow in web development. I'm building my project in Symfony, and it's in Git.
Right now, I have three environments, dev (local), staging and prod. The project itself ...
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Better php framework for shared hosting [closed]
I need to develop an app for booking appointments. This is going to be hosted in a shared server. So performance is the most important thing. I have used symfony2. I quite liked the framework. But ...
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Differences between symfony 2 and 1?
I'm starting symfony and interested in learning where symfony is coming from. In terms of it's architectural challenges.
What are the architectural or philosophical differences between symfony 2 and ...
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What am I missing from my CI stack?
Right now, the current deploy process at my work is based around tagging from the trunk and switching various PHP web sites for clients on our QA and Production servers. While this is simple from the ...
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What does Symfony Framework offer that Zend Framework does not? [closed]
I have professionally working with Zend Framework for about a year. No major complaints. With some modifications, it has done a good job. I'm beginning to work on a side project where I want to ...
