When we redesigned hotelicopter, I had to spend a lot of time cutting up images for a bunch of buttons and boxes. I was using the now-standard Sliding Doors technique, so that we could have flexible boxes. Today, I realized that I could combine this technique with another A List Apart favorite, image sprites, so that you can have sliding doors using only one image. (more…)
So, one us pilots was trying to use Doctrine migrations to update a database on one of our servers. However, Doctrine was sternly refusing to use the correct database, as configured in the database.yml file. As it turns out, using Symfony from the command line skips the usual route through the /web/yourapplication.php file (e.g. backend.php or frontend.php). As a result, the environment is not properly set when reading the database.yml file, and instead the last database connection specified is used. Lame. The trick is to specify the environment from the command line, so this file (and the other config files) do what they’re supposed to:
symfony doctrine:migrate --env=staging frontend 119
where “staging” is whatever the environment is you want to use (to match the name in the database.yml file).
The Doctrine manual is really, really confusing in places. If you want to do something as simple as updating a record, the examples suggest that you use Doctrine_Query::create(). This doesn’t make a lot of sense, because we only want to manipulate the model, we shouldn’t have to even look at a query. (more…)