Strangebuzz...?

Wow, that's quiet a long time i didn't blogged !! Let see if i can write something interesting ! As you have probably noticed, the symfony plugin count has recently reached the 500. This is really huge ! To celebrate this, Fabien has added an interesting functionality "I use this plugin" witch allows you to tell the plugins you use in yours projects. This "plugin users count" will show witch are used and work, so you don't have to waste time on a plugin witch does not work at all... Like the sfNadaPlugin... Moreover i think there will be another good side effect of this new functionality, is to encourage the plugins authors to update their plugin more frequently or to convert them for the different major versions of symfony. That's what i did the last week.

sfDB4toPropelPlugin

sDB4toPropelPlugin is a plugin that adds to symfony a new task: propel:db4-to-propel that allows you to convert a DB4 schema (a DBDesigner4 schema) into a valid Propel schema.yml file, with this plugin you can just forget the boring work of building your schema.yml by hand.
This is probably the most interesting of my plugins and i am quiet surprised there is only 3 guys who use it (including me). The last interesting functionality that was added with the 1.0.3 version is that you can declare tables as "external", that means that inside your DB4 schema you can make links to plugins tables, like sf_guard_user. This is very practical, i used it since more than 2 years (the 1.0 and 1.1 versions were never published) so that why i am quiet surprised this plugin doesn't have more success... Perhaps it just get lost among the 500 others. If you use and like this plugin and want to help me in giving it more visibility on the symfony website, click on the following link

• Current number of users: 3
• Available for symfony 1.1, 1.2
• I like and use the sfDB4toPropelPlugin !! (you must be logged before on the symfony

website)

• Main tutorial
• Alternative tutorial for Jobeet day 3 using the sfDB4toPropelPlugin

I will start soon the development of the worthy successor of this plugin, the sfWorkbenchPlugin, any help will be welcome ! This time i'd like to make the plugin Propel and Doctrine friendly, witch would be very interesting for all symfony users.

sfLightboxPlugin

sfLightboxPlugin is a symfony plugin that provides an easy to use wrapper for the Lightbox2 javascript library.

• Available for symfony 1.0, 1.1, 1.2
• Current number of users: 16
• I like and use the sfLightboxPlugin !
• Check the online demo

sfTCPDFPlugin

The sfTCPDFPlugin provides abstraction for the TCPDF library. The main interest of this FPDF "fork" resides in the fact that it handles any UTF8 strings witch the native encoding format used by symfony.

I have just updated this plugin, this new version for symfony 1.2 introduces a new interesting functionality , it's a handy config handler to manage several TCPDF configurations with a YAML file, so you don't have to set the TCPDF constants. So this version is far more practical that the old one.

• Available for symfony 1.0, 1.2
• Current number of users: 9
• I like and use the sfTCPDFPlugin !

sfJoomlaBridgePlugin

This was an experimental plugin, but i shamefully abandoned it... But there's a reason; it's because this old plugin was for symfony 1.0 and the old Joomla 1.0 version. Now there is a new plugin the sfJoomla15BridgePlugin for symfony 1.2 and Joomla 1.5.x witch is based on my previous code, so i have joined the dev team of this plugin. Even if have abandoned the plugin i have updated its description to invite the users not to use this one but the new one, so they don't waste their time on it. (i have received several mails about it from users who didn't saw the new 1.5 plugin... :x)

• Available for symfony 1.2
• Current number of users: 2
• I like and use the sfJoomla15BridgePlugin !

sfMyNextSymfonyPlugin

I already have several ideas for my next plugins. One that was never published and one about tests... But this will be part of another post. I wish i could find some time to post a little more frequently.

• You can find all my plugins here

See you. symfoniquement votre. ++ COil

Hi symfonians !

Well, i didn't post very often during these last months. So let's try to write something interesting. In this post i will show you an alternative way to build your database with symfony, propel and the DB4 tool. This tutorial is not really an "alternative" to the official tutorial. Let's say that we will just see another way to build our database, i won't be as exhaustive as Fabien did in the Jobeet Day 3 tutorial, therefore, for all details please refer to the official Jobeet tutorial.

Pre-requisites:

• Having done at least day 1 and 2 of the Jobeet tutorial. (or you already know symfony, in this case you will need a fresh symfony 1.2 project)
• Not being too angry with Propel

What you will learn:

• Using the sfDB4toPropelPlugin to build your schema.yml without writing a single line of this file.

What you will NOT learn:

• How wonderful symfony is. For this, read the official Jobeet tutorial of Fabien.

So let's go... We will start at this part of the Jobeet 3 tutorial.

1 - Plugin installation

First we will install the sfDB4toPropel plugin, i did not released any package for the symfony 1.2 version yet, so we will install it via SVN. (edit: i've just released the 1.0.2 version for sf 1.2.0)

   $ cd plugins
   $ mkdir sfDB4toPropelPlugin
   $ cd sfDB4toPropelPlugin
   $ svn co http://svn.symfony-project.com/plugins/sfDB4toPropelPlugin/branches/1.2

Be careful not to check out the root of the plugin but the branch related to the symfony version you want to use, actually 1.1 or 1.2)

(PS: You can also set an svn external to the plugin if your project already uses a svn repository)

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1 - sfDB4toPropelPlugin presentation

I've just released a new plugin, it is called sfDB4toPropelPlugin, what is this ? Can it make coffee ? Not yet. Well this one add to symfony a new task: propel:db4-to-propel that allows you to convert a DB4 schema (A DBDesigner 4 schema) into a valid propel schema.yml file. It can handle:

• I18n tables
• Foreign keys
• phpNames of tables
• Name of propel connection
• Comments for all fields
• Name of target schema
• Lib package name
• And several other options...

You can read a complete tutorial for this plugin in the full version of this post.
Of course, i'll be glad to have some feedback here, to know what you like / dislike and what could be improved.

See you. COil

Related posts:

• http://trac.symfony-project.org/wiki/HowtoUseDbDesigner4XML
• http://blog.tooleshed.com/?p=6
• http://blog.onfamp.net/maze/un-petit-batch-pour-symfony/
• http://www.symfony-project.org/snippets/snippet/286
• http://www.diloc.de/blog/2008/02/26/mysql-workbench-propel-useful/

PS: Reading the related posts, it seems that i did not use the "last version", so i'll check what can be included in the next version of the plugin.

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