Posts Tagged ‘Symfony’

How to remove the meta name=title element from Symfony 1.2 pages

Note: If you are using Symfony 1.0, follow these instructions instead.
A commenter from my prior post on this subject noted that those instructions only worked for Symfony 1.0 so I have updated the instructions to work for Symfony 1.2 (the current release as of this writing).

Basic Continuous Integration Server with Symfony and Hudson

This is the absolute minimal setup I was able to find to get a continuous integration server running for Symfony that would report a failed build if any of the project’s unit tests failed. I tried a couple different CI servers and Hudson seemed to be the best mix of easy to install, configure, and [...]

How to run a Symfony site without the .htaccess file

I recently wrote a tip about how to overcome issues when working with mod_rewrite, PHP_SELF, and configuration settings within the main server or virtual host context as is recommended in the Apache documentation on Per-directory Rewrites (scroll down to the notes). This post will explain the specific changes needed to do this for the Symfony [...]

Tip: Use PHP_SELF and mod_rewrite without using .htaccess

Want to use your favorite PHP framework without it’s .htaccess file by moving those settings into your httpd.conf but it’s not quite working out? This is probably because some of those settings in the .htaccess file are rewrites and the PHP framework you are using uses a front controller that relies on the PHP_SELF server [...]

How to remove the meta name=title element from Symfony pages

Note: If you are using Symfony 1.2, follow these instructions instead.
I came across a slight problem with how the Symfony framework outputs title tag data: it outputs it both to the title element as well as to the meta element with name=”title”. This duplicated data is not optimal and may be considered “spammy”.
In looking to [...]

Customizing a Symfony layout with property settings via slots

Ever wanted to have a layout in Symfony that allowed a template to pass it information about what to display in a more structured manner than slots allow? Well, here’s how to do it. You still need to use slots to avoid the caching issues described in http://trac.symfony-project.org/wiki/Symfony11LayoutUpgrade, but it is pretty easy to do [...]

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