[En] Tutorial content:
- Creating a plugin with a custom admin generator theme
- Extending the sfActions class
- Extending the sfPropelAdminGenerator class
Here is little contribution for the symfony code sprint, a symfony tutorial about the admin generator. 
Do you know about it ? I think it's one of my favourite symfony tool, i have developed several applications with symfony and for 75% of them i have made a custom admin generator theme. And as said in the symfony documentation, the admin generator is very very very powerful. 
In this tutorial we will see a concrete example on how to extend it to provide a useful new feature. Witch feature ? Well it was one of the things a customer asked me, "I want to be able to delete several rows at a time with check boxes" ... Ahhhhh indeed, it's not a native feature of the admin generator. So.... let's do it...
::: Pre-requisite :::
Well i will not explain here how to install symfony as there are lots of tutorials about this on the symfony website and in the wiki. So i will assume you have a clean symfony installation so you can type the symfony
command in cli. I used the 1.0.13 version for this tutorial.
::: Creating and setting a new project :::
:: Creating the new project ::
First we will create the new project that we will call tutorial
, create a new folder tutorial and launch the init-project task into it.
symfony init-project tutorial
Now let's create the backend application:
symfony init-app backend
As it is always better to have a submain for our application add the following in you apache httpd.conf file and change it with your own path
## COil symfony tutorial n°1 : Extending the admin generator ##
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName dev.tutorial.com
DocumentRoot "C:\wamp\www\tutorial\web"
DirectoryIndex index.php
Alias /sf "c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.5\PEAR\data\symfony\web\sf"
<Directory "C:\wamp\www\tutorial\web">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Add the sub-domain in you hosts file:
127.0.0.1 dev.tutorial.com
Ok, at this point we should have our "Project created!" page. So Let's try to browse http://dev.tutorial.com/backend_dev.php
:: The database ::
Create a local database, let's call it tutorial again. (same as the project name)
Modify the database settings in the config/database.yml and config/propel.ini file, your database.yml file should look like this:
all:
propel:
class: sfPropelDatabase
param:
dsn: mysql://root@localhost/tutorial
Now we need a schema, let's take the one of Askeet
Ok now let's try to build the database:
symfony.bat propel-build-all-load backend
Oops, it seems there are some errors. As we are quite lazy just delete the password columns and the QuestionTag section of the /datas/fixtures/test_data.yml file.
Let's try again to run the last command. If your are successful you should now have some tables and data in your tutorial database. If not, you probably missed something. At this point we have a valid application with a database, some tables and fixtures. Settings are ok, so can go to the next step.
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