Part 3 of 4.
In this post, we will implement our news bundle and enhance our brand new Dashboard to handle these news.
— Read MorePart 1 of 4.
I promised some blog posts about what to do with SonataAdminBundle. Since then, I had a hard time making Sonata bundles work nicely with ACLs on my existing data. I will try to explain how to set ACLs to SonataAdminBundle's CRUD, and how to bind these ACLs to logged in users handled by FOSUserBundle through SonataUserBundle.
We will consider a fake project, let's name it “tech news”. It will be a news bundle with the following requirements :
— Read MoreIt has been a few weeks only and already there is no coming back. I started using DuckDuckGo and have now made it my default search provider instead of Google. I still use Google from time to time, particularly for searches in French and for Google Images. Here is why I decided to take the leap after 10 years of using exclusively Google.
— Read MoreLigature Symbols, by japanese web designer Kazuyuki Motoyama, has a neat idea of typographic ligatures. Ligatures are used to display certain words as nice corresponding icons. Example : using this font would display the text camera + user = good like this :
How to set up a new Symfony 2.1 project using SonataAdminBundle, FOSUserBundle and SonataUserBundle. (Disclaimer : disclaimer is at the end of this post.)
First, let me say that Symfony, with these three bundles, is an incredibly useful base for lots of projects. FOSUserBundle provides user management. By default it will let you have a register form (for new users to register), a log in/out form, lost password form, etc. User management comes with group management, so that you can file users into groups, assign them different permissions, etc. SonataAdminBundle provides an admin interface to administrate your users and groups. It also creates a nice CRUD, with shiny nice jQuery options, everything wrapped in Bootstrap. SonataUserBundle makes the link between FOSUserBundle and SonataAdminBundle.
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- Create new user form.
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- Dashboard. First group is user management, second group is CRUD for an entity.
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- Login form.
I will first create a new Symfony 2.1 project :⚘ composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition ./tech 2.1
PRO-TIP :
If you haven't already done this and are tired of copying composer.phar in every new Symfony2 project, run this :⚘ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo "php -- --install-dir=/usr/bin"
(Or do it in two separate steps, if you're suspicious. You have all right to be.)
It will allow you to run composer from anywhere :⚘ composer.phar something something
Edit composer.json, add these dependencies to the "require" section :
There are quite a few table sorting and/or filtering jQuery plugins out there. All of them are more or less equal, so let's take a look at those that are more equal than the others.
— Read MoreSimple Grid is a CSS Stylesheet providing a barebones grid. It's also responsive (fluid columns), adapting nicely to any viewport (as small as mobile) by making the columns display as rows on smaller viewports.
— Read MoreTaking my first steps with SonataAdminBundle, I spent my afternoon debugging strange undocumented problems. Google did help on some of them, but for some others returned strictly no result. Since I don't want you getting discouraged or Google letting you down, I documented my problems and fixes below.
#1 : After installing SonataAdminBundle, dashboard shows title_dashboard, link_add, link_list, btn_create_and_edit_again, label_filters, btn_filters, etc
Problem : dashboard not localized. It doesn't even fall back on english localization.
— Read MoreSo you have been trying to use SonataAdminBundle with Symfony 2.1, found several resources telling you to modify your deps file and to add strange things to AppKernel.php and autoload.php, but none explaining how to do it automagically with Composer ? Me too.
First, open /composer.json and add these dependencies at the end of the "require" section : (of course, don't add the ones you already have)
