Advanced regular expression features to match Markdown links
This step by step article will introduce you to some more advanced features of regular expressions: Non-capturing and named groups. Recursive regular expressions. Free spacing mode. »
WordPress, the automated way (part 1): setup
That good old WordPress… When you are coming from modern PHP frameworks' world and their good practices, it looks quite antique on a technical point of »
Implement a ReCaptcha React component validated by Symfony
In this article, we are going to implement a React component to render a Google ReCaptcha V2 element and a PHP / Symfony service to check that »
Implementation of a GraphQL mutation with file upload
Implementing a GraphQL API mutation that can upload files is not a very well documented task. I'm going to explain in this article how to implement »
Create the missing podcast from a web radio station
As I recently moved to the US, I needed to get prepared a bit and brush up my English. One nice way to do so is »
Using Redis for session handling in Symfony 4.1+
Handling sessions outside of the local filesystem is getting even more usual in a cloud-based environment. Using Redis is one of the popular solutions for this »
3 ways to get Docker for Mac faster on your Symfony app.
UPDATE (2017-05-05): article has been updated for docker-sync 0.4. Docker is an amazing tool to set up your whole development platform locally (and elsewhere too) »
Migrating users to a secure hashing algorithm in Symfony
Your app may use an old and unsecure hashing algorithm for storing passwords, like MD5 (without salt). This article explains how to convert your insecurely encrypted »
Yarn, the next package manager for JavaScript
I currently use npm for managing front lib dependencies on my projects. I was previously using Bower, which turned out to be useless and Yarn will »
Generating PDF files with Symfony
This article explains how to generate PDF files in Symfony with KnpSnappyBundle and the underlying wkhtmltopdf library and will tackle the following subjects: Install KnpSnappyBundle and »
Retour sur la Symfony Live 2015
Un retour sur cette Symfony Live 2015 à Paris qui s’est caractérisée par son nombre impressionnant de participants et de conférences. Toutes présentaient des approches »
My contributions to Doctrine 2.5
As Doctrine ORM 2.5 was released very recently, I'd like to introduce two small contributions I made to this project that can be useful. Accept »
Doctrine filters and annotations to improve security and ease development in a Symfony app
A user should only see his orders, his messages and so on, but should never see others’ data. But it probably happened that you forgot at »
Twig Extensions 1.2 released with two new i18n filters
Twig Extensions 1.2 was silently released a few days ago. This version includes 2 new internationalisation filters I have contributed to (based on previous Bertrand »
Clear input control with Bootstrap 3
Input clear controls are common to mobile app interfaces where they are native but not so common on the web. Which is too bad as most »
4-digit years for localized dates in Twig templates
The localizeddate filter in Twig (in the Intl Extension) formats dates according to the current or given locale. While you can display dates with the dd/ »
Leverage Symfony2 extra features to simplify controller actions
This post presents two simple yet underused Symfony2 features that make actions code shorter and simpler to understand: The @Template annotation Action parameters conversion (optionally used »
Doctrine DBAL - Count updated rows
Just a little tip to count how many rows have been updated after the execution of a Doctrine query. In case you use Doctrine DBAL (typically »
Modal sheet dialogs in Javascript: Bootstrap modal sheet plugin
I tagged today the first version of my Javascript Bootstrap Modal Sheet library. It’s available on Github at this address: https://github.com/michaelperrin/bootstrap-modal-sheet »
Range date validator for Symfony2
Symfony2 provides a date validator and a range validator for integers but no range validator for dates. We’re going to implement one in this post. »
Notification messages for JSON responses with jQuery and Symfony2
We’re going to setup an easy-to-use notification system using jQuery and the Symfony2 event dispatcher, plus some CSS to get things look nice. The flash »
Aloha Editor plugin for symfony 1.4 - sfAlohaPlugin
It feels a bit strange to dive into symfony 1 code again but I updated today the sfAlohaPlugin plugin that I wrote some time ago to »