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Symfony

Published on 2019-09-22 • Modified on 2020-01-12

In this post, we will see how to create a full-text search engine with elasticsearch in a Symfony application. We will use Docker compose to set up an elasticsearch stack. We will try to keep the configuration as minimal as possible keeping the sensible default components values. In the end, on this website, we will able to search for articles and snippets matching one or several keywords.

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Symfony

Published on 2019-08-23 • Modified on 2024-11-10

In this post, we will see how to hide the front controller's file name of a Symfony application so it can't be accessed when typing it: "index.php". The less the users (or hackers of course) will know about the technical implementation of your website, the better it is.

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Symfony

Published on 2019-06-29 • Modified on 2019-07-01

In this post, we will see how to implement a simple feature flag. This flag will help us to debug our forms and will allow to disable the HTML5 client side validation of all the forms of an application.

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Symfony

Published on 2019-06-05 • Modified on 2019-06-05

In this post, we will see how to use the NotCompromisedPassword validator which was introduced in Symfony 4.3. This validator allows us to check if a given password was publicly exposed in a data breach and is therefore compromised. We will see how to use it manually and how to offer the ability to the user to test their password with this validation.

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Symfony

Published on 2019-04-18 • Modified on 2019-04-19

In this post, we will see how to implement a "Read in your language" link in your pages. The goal will be to detect the user browser preferred language and show him a link if the current page is available in his language.

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Symfony

Published on 2019-03-14 • Modified on 2020-05-14

In this post, we will see how to send logs to Slack. Typical usage is, of course, to send critical errors to be warned in real-time and be able to fix the issues quickly. But we can also send other types of notifications.

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Symfony

Published on 2019-01-29 • Modified on 2020-04-10

In this post, we will review one of the most used and useful service (in fact it's a value object) provided by Symfony which is the Request service Is is part of the HttpFoundation component. Symfony is indeed a "Request/Response" framework. It will be interactive, that means that you will be able to change the URL used in the examples and provide your one so you can test with different parameters. It will, therefore, save you manual dump() calls. 😉

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Symfony

Published on 2018-11-16 • Modified on 2020-10-17

In this post, we will see how to implement a fail2ban system for Symfony. It will log login failure attempts for a given IP and will prevent further tries once a critical threshold is reached. When happening, a customized error page will be displayed to the user. ⏹

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