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Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development

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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

The action


Now let's add the application logic to retrieve the vacancies based on the users' culture. We modified the model to allow us to pass in the culture; we also need to refactor the action. Open up the vacancies action class in apps/frontend/modules/vacancies/actions/actions.class.php and amend the index action:

public function executeIndex()
{
$this->vacanciesArray = VacancyPeer::getVacancies($this-> getUser()->getCulture());
if(count($this->vacanciesArray) < 1)
{
return 'NoVacancies';
}
else
{
return sfView::SUCCESS;
}
}

We have passed in the culture to our model using the user object. The logic also takes into account that there might not be any vacancies. This time we are going to create a template for this rather than setting a flash variable.

Let's create it now while we are on the subject of handling the no-vacancies pages. Create a new template in apps/frontend/modules/vacancies/templates/indexNoVacancies.php. The following is a simple template:

<h1>No...