Changing application names in Symfony

It’s generally frowned upon in Symfony to change your application’s name. To be honest, I thought it was just going to be a lot of hassle. Thankfully, it wasn’t and here’s how to do it: First, rename the application directory to reflect your new application’s name. The directory will be in < sf_root >/apps/. In [...]

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Posted a really long damn time ago in Programming.

Getting around FreshBooks’ recurring.update ‘frequency’ issue

I’m writing a few scripts which interacts with the FreshBooks API using a modified (by me) version of the Freshbooks PHP Library by Milan Rukavina. Using this library, to update anything, you first call the get() method which populates the appropriate class (e.g., FreshBooks_Client for clients and FreshBooks_Recurring for recurring profiles) attributes with the data. [...]

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Posted a really long damn time ago in Programming.

Setting a Symfony database connection as default

The title of this post is a lie… There’s technically isn’t any way to set a database connection as the default one in Symfony (1.4, anyway). However, there is a nifty trick to making it the default. What is the default database connection? In Symfony, what I call the default database connection is the sfDatabase [...]

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Posted a really long damn time ago in Programming.

Get parent function using debug_backtrace()

Sometimes, you need to know the name of the function that called the function you’re currently in. In my case, it’s a logging method in a class. PHP has the magical constant __FUNCTION__ that gives you the name of the current function, but nothing to get the calling function. You can use debug_backtrace() to get [...]

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Posted a really long damn time ago in Programming.

A tragedy in Japan

Unless you live under a rock, you know about the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan around 3 p.m. local time. The quake has caused many deaths, partial nuclear meltdowns, volcanic eruptions, and so much more. In fiscal terms, the Nikkei has dropped almost 5% since it reopened after the earthquake and forecasters are already [...]

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Posted a really long damn time ago in Humanitarian.

Reverse pattern matching in MySQL

Say, for instance, you have a table of patterns (in my case: billing rates by telephone prefix) and you need to compare a string (in my case: a telephone number) against the rates. Which should be returned is a single pattern which best matches the string so more specific patterns would be allowed. Here’s my [...]

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Posted a really long damn time ago in Programming.

Get the last day of the month

Just ran into an issue where I needed to know the last day of the month in PHP. Sure enough, there’s a way. date(’Y-m-d’,strtotime(’+1 month’,strtotime(date(’m').’/01/’.date(’Y').’ 00:00:00′))-1); That line will output something like 2011-03-31. If you need just the Unix timestamp, you can just remove the date function. It’ll output something like 1301633999, which is 2011-03-01 [...]

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Posted a really long damn time ago in Programming.

Creating database connections on-the-fly in Symfony

Symfony doesn’t have a documented way of created dynamic database connections. If I had to take a guess, it’s because database connections in Symfony don’t interact directly with the abstraction layer–the part that actually talks to the database–but instead interacts with the ORM layer–the part that turns results from the database into the objects you’re [...]

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Posted a really long damn time ago in Programming.

Secure browsing and IM with Tor

The first I heard of the Tor network was on this TWiT episode when Xeni Jardin was talking about browsing privately outside (and inside) the US using Tor. We have a very secure firewall at work by one of the better companies in the industry, which blocks certain sites and ports including IM. So, what’s [...]

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Posted a really long damn time ago in Technology.

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