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Get translatable entity from repository with specific locale

I wanted to have translatable entities in my project. So I used Gedmo translatable through the doctrine extensions bundle for Symfony. When using any kind of entity repository, a listener automatically pulls the right translation according to the current locale (from request or the default one). This is a really

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Use environment variables as Symfony parameters

I had a case where I wanted to store a configuration into a vhost environment variable. But how to get this into your symfony parameters? There is a special environment variable prefix in Symfony which will automatically be converted into a parameters variable. It is SYMFONY__. The prefix will be

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Disable elements in the Symfony developer toolbar with CompilerPass

One of the comments of the "Disable elements in the Symfony developer toolbar" post [https://blog.liplex.de/disable-elements-in-the-symfony-developer-toolbar/] was the question to do the same thing with a compiler pass instead of overwriting the definitions with the services.yml > Wouldn't it be a cleaner

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Disable elements in the Symfony developer toolbar

There are a lot of handy elements in the Symfony toolbar. But I think - especially with the last version - the toolbar got a little bit crowded. There are just a few elements I don't need (at least not for now). So I looked into how to

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How to pass SensioLabs Insight route check when using SonataAdminBundle

One of the rules SensioLabs Insight checks for is: > A route should always have a valid HTTP method This will always fail when you use the SonataAdminBundle, because there is no way to set the methods in all routes generated by the admin classes. You can show them with

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Add Access-Control-Allow-Origin

Cross-site HTTP requests are HTTP requests for resources from a different domain than the domain of the resource making the request. For instance, a resource loaded from Domain A (http://www.liplex.de) such as an HTML web page, makes a request for a resource on Domain B (http://api.

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Symfony console connection refused with MAMP

Recently I switched from a custom system setup on my Mac (Apache, MySQL, PHP, ...) to the MAMP Pro system. Unfortunately the Symfony console won't work with the default configuration in parameters.yml like the following: # Database parameters database_driver: pdo_mysql database_host: 127.0.0.1 database_

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Symfony installer

I recently stumbled over a "new" tool in the Symfony environment called the Symfony installer [https://github.com/symfony/symfony-installer]. It's a simple little tool which help you to start a new project based on the Symfony full-stack framework. The installation is extremely easy. Just download

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Get data from json request with Symfony

When working with Symfony actions you can get request parameters with $request->get('parameter-name'). When working with JSON requests, you don't have this kind of convenience methods. You're going to need to convert the request into parameters first. This could be done the

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Symfony route to annotation

When setting up routes with yml, xml or php you always define a name for a route. This name can be used to generate a url. With annotations this name is not required and not set in the documentation examples. The following is a example how a normal annotation comment

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"IS NOT NULL" expression with Symfony query builder

I searched for a easy way to get values that contain a not null in the where clause. That's what I came up with: $repo = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('LiplexBundle:User'); $query = $repo ->createQueryBuilder('u') ->where('u.

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Generate parameters.yml files in Symfony

The best practice in Symfony with the parameters.yml file is to create a parameters.yml.dist file and generate the parameters.yml from it. But how do you do this? With the ParameterHandler from Incenteev [https://github.com/Incenteev/ParameterHandler]. To use it, just put the following into your

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Redirect user to login page on access denied in symfony

Add the following line to your security config(app/config/security.yml) security: access_denied_url: /login

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Symfony services with autocomplete in IDE

I use PhpStorm [http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/] as my IDE for PHP development. It has a nice framework integration for Symfony but lacks the autocomplete when you get services through the container: $mailChimpService = $this->get('hype_mailchimp'); To let the IDE know which kind of object

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Getting a symfony project running on uberspace

I really like the german hoster uberspace [http://www.uberspace.de]. They have a great setup, awesome documentation (only in german) and an amazing support team. This is a small introduction how you get your symfony project running on their system. 1 ) Composer I found a great introduction how to

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Symfony code analysis done right

Everyone working with symfony should know the company SensioLabs. It’s the geniuses behind symfony and they are innovating like crazy. There newest (and for me most amazing) product is called SensioLabsInsight [https://insight.sensiolabs.com]. It’s the code analysis tool I never knew I wanted, but can’t

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Setup a development environment for Symfony on a Mac with Homebrew

Althougha Mac already comes with an apache and php installed, as soon as you’re starting serious development, you’re going to miss a few things. There are many package manager out there and until now I used MacPorts. Unfortunately it has a few downsides which led to MySQL crashing