Awhile ago I wrote a post on how to create custom tasks in symfony 1.0. A reader posted a question on how to do this in symfony 1.1. At first I figured out a solution of how to do it manually, but then I discovered this tutorial on the symfony cookbook section: http://www.symfony-project.org/cookbook/1_1/en/tasks which describes […]
Whenever I am using a Windows desktop and I need to connect to various servers via SSH, I use PuTTY. It’s lightweight and gets the job done without any problems. However, the one problem has always been that I may have 10 different instances open and it’s a pain in the ass to switch between […]
Previously, I wrote a post on how to store user sessions in a database using Doctrine. I figured that I would follow it up by writing this article to demonstrate how to do the same thing using Propel. The steps are pretty much similar, but with some slight variations.
Step1 - Create your sessions table
CREATE TABLE […]
We all have seen them…those websites that are still caught somewhere in the year 1999 - 2002. Here’s a checklist to make sure your site isn’t stuck in Web 1.0 world
1. Your website’s pages end in any of the following: .asp, .php3, .php4
2. You have a 30 second Flash Splash Page.
3. You have […]
So, you copied a bunch of directories from one source controlled project to another and you don’t want to go through and delete all those CVS or .svn directories by hand? Ok, no problem…
Below are two snippets that will show you how to recursively remove those directories from the Linux command line in one quick […]
So, sometimes when you try to run “apt-get install” on Ubuntu, you may get the following message:
Media change: please insert the disc labeled
'Ubuntu-Server 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)'
in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter
Of course this isn’t a real big problem when you are sitting right next to the computer. However, if it […]
Suppose that you need to set up a virtual host in Apache that catches all un-matched traffic coming in to your server. There are a number of uses for this, but the main idea is that you have a number of other virtual hosts set up, but you want anything that doesn’t match those to […]
Previously, I wrote this article on how to check the status of a known system PID from PHP. I figured that I would follow it up with another short article on how to determine the process id of a running PHP script from within itself. Many google searches seem to have led people to the […]
Here is a quick example of how to do a bulk update with Propel within symfony. This is based on this code snippet on the symfony site. I thought it was extremely useful, so I wanted to post it as an easy reference for myself and others.
Suppose we had a query which looked like this:
UPDATE […]
I’m sure many of us have had a similar experience such as the following. You push out a kick-ass update to a client’s website full of brand new design changes to the main.css file or some funkalicious AJAX features to your javascript files. However, later in the day you get a frantic call from the […]
