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Symfony ? subfolders for partials – Anna Filina

Feb 19, 2011

Symfony 1.2 ? 1.4 expects all partials to follow this convention: templates/_partial.php

What happens when you need to organize your partials in subfolder? I tried a number of ?Symfunky? avenues. Feel free to skip to the solution.

Avenues Explored

I first try the call the include_partial helper with ?subfolder/partial?, but that results in Symfony attempting to find the partial in the ?subfolder? module.

Alright, so I try ?module/subfolder/partial?, but that results in Symfony looking for ?_subfolder/partial? because it simply split at the first backslash. I don?t blame the framework developers: I am trying to do something it was not meant to do.

So now I realize that we can set any template from an action using $this->setTemplate(?subfolder/_partial?). Since actions are NOT partials by definition, I decide to use a component. Unfortunately the component doesn?t allow the developer to override templates.

I am starting to feel that the framework mocks me.?So this is how you wanna play it, huh? I will override your sfView class, load it in factories.yml, and there?s nothing you can do about it (insert diabolical laughter)! But then, after almost half an hour, I realize that I?m trying to make it too elegant for something so basic as concatenating a few strings.

Solution

The solution ended up ridiculously simple and does not risk breaking any existing code.

1. Copy get_partial() helper with an extra param: get_partial_subfolder($templateName, $vars = array(), $subfolder)
2. Edit the line that concatenates the file name: $actionName = $subfolder.?/_?.$templateName; (instead of ?_?.$templateName)

There you go, no more headaches. Just remember to use ?echo get_partial()? instead of ?include_partial()? unless you want to override that helper as well. If you are unsure how to create custom helpers, see here under Adding Your Own Helpers: http://www.symfony-project.org/book/1_2/07-Inside-the-View-Layer

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Symfony Live 2010 – Symfony2, speaking and stuff – Jordi Boggiano

Feb 18, 2010

Overall the conference was pretty interesting since I don’t have a lot of experience with symfony I learned quite a bunch of things about it’s usage. I also met a lot of nice people, and ended the trip yesterday evening at the github meetup, after going for food with a couple phpBB guys who are really much nicer than the forum software they stand for. They were also very open to us bashing phpBB and seem to be headed towards a brighter future for the next version, which I’m sure nobody will complain about.

I also had my first session at a conference, accompanying Lukas though so I wasn’t really flying by myself yet but it was still a nice and interesting (and stressful) experience that I will try to renew. We didn’t get all that much feedback by the way so feel free to do so (also here if you are too lazy to register on joind.in), the organizers need it and obviously I wonder how the talk was received as well.

As for Symfony 2 (which now comes with a capital S please), I kind of saw the flexibility coming since we already implemented the dependency injection container in our Okapi framework at Liip, but I was still impressed by the jump away from symfony (1) Fabien conceded, many people would have tried to keep more BC at the cost of going forward, and I’m really glad he didn’t, I think it will pay in the long run. The new version of the framework will basically be able to be totally ripped apart to fit your needs better if you have high performance requirements, which was the major pain point of symfony 1 as far as I’m concerned, and one of our reasons to keep working on Okapi which is pretty much a baseline micro-framework you can build upon. We will have to see if adopting Symfony in its place will make sense, but it sounds promising and it would offload some maintenance away from us which is always good.

Obviously Symfony 2 isn’t going to be stable for a while, and there are some rough edges that still need to be discussed and improved, mostly in the way bundles are handled imo, but it looks very good already and I’ll definitely give it a try asap. I would also encourage everyone to do so, especially framework developers, because the dependency injection is a pretty awesome thing to have, both for the testability of code and flexibility of the development process. Although if it’s your only interest in it, checking out the Okapi 2 core (or the liip.to app ported to use it) is probably easier as there is less code to read, and we didn’t add any of the abstraction to the dependency injection layer that Symfony 2 has.

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