ruzz on symfony

osx leopard, MAMP & symfony

word to the wise, for those of you looking to install symfony and have it work in any meaningful way you mostly want MAMP v1.7 not, i repeat, not 1.7.1

there is some funky shit happening with php 5.2.5 and symfony

see how i said coupled.

anyways. you want php 5.2.3 which comes in MAMP 1.7.

because the guys who make the mamp website are tools.. here is a direct link to the download.

you’re entirely welcome.

update: not sure how i missed this, but a more detailed explanation of why they aren’t getting along can be found over at symfoniac. 

osx leopard local domains

adding some domains for development:

sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

follow the existing format:

127.0.0.1       dev.myproject
127.0.0.1       prod.myproject

and so on.

ps. i’m not sure where the old app went that provided us a nice gui, and i don’t even recall the name (damn you quicksilver) because i just hit ctrl-space and typed net into quicksilver, then picked the icon i knew would get the job done. man. sometimes you gotta wonder. is it easier to remember the path, or the url.. 

if you use sfWebBrowser

more specifically the sfCurlAdaptor.. I logged a bug tonight regarding it.

The gist of the problem is when the adaptor goes to build an http query string to put into the header it embeds ‘& amp;’ (forgive the space, tumblr.. sigh) rather than &.

this gives you some interesting results back from REST APIs like, say, tumblr’s—which just kept telling me i had a bad username or password.

this was a tricky one to figure out. I had to route curl (by setting curl proxy options) to port 8888 where i had fiddler listening, then passing it on. So I could compare the working POST and the broken POST to see what was different.

once i established that it was tough to say if this is a symfony bug, or sfCurlAdaptor bug, or a config expectation (issue).

in the end, i think that sfCurlAdaptor should be able to test, and recover from bad or not set ini values so I think the issue lies there and I logged it thus. Will anyone else agree? who knows.

anyways, the short term hack would be to either set your ini file arg_separator.output=’&’ or go on into sfCurlAdaptor and change:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($parameters));

to:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($parameters, ”, ‘&’));

and you should be good to go.