Articles by ANNA FILINA

Podcast About Sexism in Tech: What I Learned

I had the pleasure of discussing with fellow members of the PHP community a very sensitive topic: sexism in tech. I have been invited to a specialepisode of Voices of the ElePHPantwith Elizabeth (Beth)\xa0Tucker Long, Elizabeth (Liz) Naramore and Laura Thomson....

Symfony Form: Extract Values

By Anna Filina

I had to look deep into Symfony 1.4 code this morning as I was trying to get a field's value. Form values come from different sources: default values, record values (when editing, for example), original POST values and clean POST values. So when is each...

Their Programming Language Sucks!

By Anna Filina

Or at least this is what I hear often all around me. Many want to think that their language is better than all others, and go to great\xa0lengths\xa0to discredit them. Just like at sport events, people would paint their faces in their team's colors and...

Public Call for Papers: What Does That Mean?

By Anna Filina

Some of you may have already heard that theConFoo call for papersis already open. The great thing about it this year, is that it's public. This means that anyone can vote on the proposals. Besides being fun for the speakers and attendees, it opens up a...

Sync git fork with maintainer

By Anna Filina

I forked the joind.in project on GitHub, committed a few patches and sent pull requests. It was fun until I asked myself "how do I keep my fork synced with the maintainer's repo?" I found the info (with minor bug) on Google Groups by Matt Todd....

Symfony task “default” context

By Anna Filina

When creating Symfony 1.4 CLI tasks, I stumbled upon an error message: The "default" context does not exist. After searching some old forums, I found a solution. Before you access any Doctrine class, you mus first bootstrap your context correctly. Here is...

Integrating Markdown with Symfony

By Anna Filina

Context I needed to create a number of static help pages in three languages in a Symfony 1.4 application.\xa0Using the XLIFF translation files seemed absurd, since I knew that I will include a lot of html. As you know, XLIFF translation files are XML, and...

Symfony – subfolders for partials

By Anna Filina

Symfony 1.2 \u2013 1.4 expects all partials to follow this convention: templates/_partial.php What happens when you need to organize your partials in subfolder? I tried a number of "Symfunky" avenues. Feel free to skip to the solution. Avenues Explored I...