Here is how you can store your sessions in a central database with Doctrine in symfony. If you are trying to do this with Propel, the check out my follow up post: Store Symfony Sessions in Database with Propel
Step1 - Create your sessions table
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `sessions` (
`sess_id` varchar(64) NOT NULL,
`sess_data` text NOT […]
A common task that you will need to do on a Ubuntu/Debian server is set a static IP address. By default the ip address is set through DHCP, so you will need to change that.
First edit the /etc/network/interfaces file:
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
Change your file so that it looks similar to the following, but replacing the specific […]
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 […]
