At some point you may need to have your symfony do some sort of process through the command line and trigger it through a cron job. I’ll will walk you through the steps in order to get it working properly.
The scenario:
You have a list of ids in a particular order that you want to search for in a MySQL table. Perhaps the ids were returned in this order from a search index or something else. Whatever the case is, now you want to get the results in the same order as the ids that […]
At some point you may need to figure out if a system process is still running from within a PHP application. The secret is by running a system command from PHP that returns the information for a specific process id (PID).
The normal shell command would be something like this:
$ ps 4946
Which would return something like […]
Have you ever needed to log your own information to a specific log file in symfony? Sure, the built in logging is very useful, but sometimes you just need to log some specific information to a file of your choice and don’t need a full stack trace. Today I needed to be able to do […]
As users of symfony know, there are many useful command line tasks that are essential to developing your symfony projects (symfony cc, symfony propel-build-model, etc). Luckily symfony is set up so that you can easily create your own tasks to do specific things that you may need. The only problem that some people may have […]
There comes a time in your symfony development career when you will need to connect to multiple databases from within one application. At first it may not be obvious how to configure symfony correctly to handle a couple different databases or database servers.
From time to time I need to perform some MySQL tasks that are only possible from the command line. Considering that I don’t have to use them everyday, I tend to forget the exact syntax for them. So then I am forced to take the time to search through google to find examples for the […]
Today my SEO/SEM buddy turned me on to some of the webmaster tools being offered by Google, Yahoo, and MSN. He suggested that setting this site up in them and submitting the sitemaps may expedite the time it takes for my site to start getting crawled/indexed. As far as I can tell, all three of […]
About two years ago I was looking through the various web development job listings and started noticing this thing called Ruby on Rails in the requirements of various job descriptions. Upon further research I discovered that it was this wonderful godsend thing called a Web Development Framework. Before that point in my years of web […]
This evening I had the need to get this site submitted to all the major search engines. Since this site is brand new I have no inbound links, so of course I needed to get the ball rolling. It’s been awhile since I had to start getting a website ranked from ground zero, so I […]
