Tag Archives: Symfony

Don’t be afraid to NOT use the ORM…

I’ve been racking my brains the past couple of days with a Doctrine issue within a Symfony project. I was constructing a bank statement-esque page, which iterated over a “StatementEntry” table and displayed the results. Entries could either be of model Type A or model Type B, with the relevant model ID stored [...]

“Why I hate Criteria”

Nicking the title from the previous post, oh and the sentiment. I don’t hate Criteria**, it is actually quite good, however watching the video in the previous post reminded me of a few issues we have had in the office where we have complained about it or just got plain confused…
I know Dan, for [...]

Finding propel objects

In the White October office we use a programing framework called Symfony for some of our projects. It provides us with well erm a framework to develop our web applications, it gives us a standard way of dealing with web requests, keeping our code in a standard set of folders and lots of handy tools [...]