Book Image

Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development

Book Image

Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development

Overview of this book

With its flexible architecture, the Symfony framework allows you to build modern web applications and web services easily and rapidly. The MVC components separate the logic from the user interface and therefore make developing, changing, and testing your applications much faster. Using Symfony you can minimize repetitive coding tasks, optimize performance, and easily integrate with other libraries and frameworks. Although this framework contains with many powerful features, most developers do not exploit Symfony to its full potential. This book makes it easy to get started and produce a powerful and professional-looking web site utilizing the many features of Symfony. Taking you through a real-life application, it covers all major Symfony framework features without pushing you into too much theoretical detail, as well as throwing some light on the best practices for rapid application development. This book takes you through detailed examples as well as covering the foundations that you will need to get the most out of the Symfony framework. You will learn to shorten the development time of your complex applications and maintain them with ease. You will create several useful plug-ins and add them to your application and automate common tasks. The book also covers best practices and discussions on security and optimization. You will learn to utilize all major features of this framework by implementing them in your application. By the end, you should have a good understanding of the development features of Symfony (for Propel as well as Doctrine editions), and be able to deploy a high-performance web site quite easily.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface

Handling foreign keys using admin generator


Back in Chapter 3,Adding the Business Logic and Complex Application Logic, we had to display the locations for each vacancy. This was very simple to achieve by using the proxy methods. Using the generator.yml configuration file, working with foreign keys is just as easy. Moving on to the vacancies module, we create it in the exact same way. But this time we give the module a new name, and not the name suggested by the model name.

>symfony propel:generate-admin --module="vacancies" backend Vacancy

As you can see, there is an optional parameter—module="" that will allow us to name our module on our own. Before we continue to view our vacancies module, we must add a __toString() method to the StoreLocation model in lib/model/StoreLocation.php:

class StoreLocation extends BaseStoreLocation
{
public function __toString()
{
return $this->getCity(). ' (' . $this->getCountry() .')';
}
}

Add the following code to data/fixtures/fixtures.yml:

StoreLocation...