One of my current projects is using JWT Authentication for an API built on Symfony (shocker, I know). One of the things I wanted to build into this was a limiter on the number of “login” attempts for the API that would lock someone out for x minutes after n failed attempts; Read more…
Easily add some logic to filter out specific entities from an ArrayCollection in Symfony2. In this simple example, I wrote an app that had Node, and Comment entities separately, as well as an explicitly defined NodeComment entity. In my Node entity, I want to serialize all of the associated comments. But rather than Read more…
Ever wanted to create a simple dropdown of all the Entity classes you have mapped in Doctrine? I have! For a recent project I needed to create a sample API form and load the entity type first, so I needed a way to properly load every Entity that’s mapped programmatically Read more…
While developing, Doctrine Migrations can quickly become obsolete as you adjust your schema in the early stages of development. Nevertheless, Migrations are still a vital part of properly building compatibility for deployments. However, to consolidate and avoid having several (or in my case dozens) Migration Versions before you’ve got a Read more…
Symfony is fantastic for building very quick snappy applications; especially CRUD apps. However, sometimes we want to quickly alter the default CRUD forms with some business logic. For example, if we have Products and Categories and want to be able to create new product entities with a specified category but somehow restrict which categories are Read more…
Symfony2 is fantastic when coupled with Doctrine, but unfortunately Doctrine has its limitations and does not inherently support dynamic EntityManager connections, because the parameters for each connection must be defined and loaded at the kernel level. This assumes that each of the connections have an identical schema mapped by Doctrine2. Read more…