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Symfony
The Symfony community has long been the force that drives PHP developer to more modern and stable applications. Most things we do at Happyr is related to this awesome framework.
Recent Posts
Always use caret instead of tilde
I’ve been noticing people having trouble understanding the differences between the caret (“^”) and the tilde (“~”) operator in the composer.json file. Compos...
How Happyr work with Symfony translations
You probably follow the Symfony best practices when you develop web applications. That is great but there is no much information about translation. The offic...
Do not worry about code style fixes
Earlier this year I installed Fabien’s php-cs-fixer on my continuous integration server. So at each build I checked if there were any code style errors, if s...
User as a service in Symfony2
To get the current logged in user in Symfony2 is kind of complicated. You have to do a lot for such simple task. First you have to get the TokenStorage to re...
Open files in PHPStorm from you Symfony application
If you want to open files in PHPStorm8 directly from the Symfony debug toolbar there is a neat trick you can use. This is very helpful when you quickly want ...
Coveralls with Github and Travis
The other day when I was making a PR to a Github project I got a comment like this:
Continuous integration with Symfony2
There are many great articles that tells you why you should use continuous integration i.e. the one by Martin Fowler and the book This is Lean by Niklas Modi...