Day-by-day askeet files [unofficial]

[Balth]

Hello,

As you may know, askeet svn sometimes doesn't content the same files as the ones you made during an askeet day. ~ ~
And when you are a beginner, the impossibility to obtain safe work after an error or a misunderstanding can be discouraging...

So I propose (maybe with someone's help) to recreate the askeet svn.Do you agree ?

I'm not error proof so do not hesitate to check my work and tell me if an error is in.

Note : database is a mysql database, mysql user is "user", his pass is "password". Do not forget to configure askeet/config/propel.ini and askeet/config/databases.yml .

[Mod: made topic sticky, renamed topic]

[Balth]

Askeet day 1 ~ ~

[Balth]

Askeet Day 2

Do not forget to configure askeet/config/propel.ini and askeet/config/databases.yml

[Balth]

Askeet day 3

[Balth]

Askeet day 4
A little bit longer to publish due to lunch time

[Balth]

Askeet day 5

[Balth]

Hello ~ ~
Askeet day 6

[Balth]

Askeet day 7

Question :
I have created a "user profile" as teach in askeet day 7. It work fine ~ ~ but when I log as fabpot (to check my work) I don't see nothing except a 404 error by clicking on "fabpot profile" (right top corner of the page) is it normal or is it a forgetfulness ?

[halfer]

I don't know but imagine that something needs fixing with that. Use your dev front controller to see if there is a problem with routing?

Thanks for your contributions, by the way; I am sure this will be much appreciated by symfony beginners ~ ~

[Balth]

Askeet day 8

A hard day work!
Things to understand :
- public function executeInterested() goes into user/action/action.class.php
- interestedSuccess.php has to be created in user/templates

If you can't overcome the step, this is the code of the end of the day ~ ~

[Balth]

Askeet day 9


Question :
- "The same kind of modification goes for the answer/_answer.php template." (talking about "Change the template" in the "Hide all Id" section)

Ok that's cool but what is _answer.php? it's the first time I read about this file name... ~ ~
Someone knows?

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EDIT :
Nowadays, Askeet day 9 content _answer.php. It's asked on day 7 but I didn't paid attention and it's not a must until that day. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Bart]

Askeet day 7

Question :
I have created a "user profile" as teach in askeet day 7. It work fine ~ ~ but when I log as fabpot (to check my work) I don't see nothing except a 404 error by clicking on "fabpot profile" (right top corner of the page) is it normal or is it a forgetfulness ?

No this is no error I believe, you'll have to route that link on a later day in the tutorial

[Bart]

Askeet day 9


Question :
- "The same kind of modification goes for the answer/_answer.php template." (talking about "Change the template" in the "Hide all Id" section)

Ok that's cool but what is _answer.php? it's the first time I read about this file name... ~ ~
Someone knows?

There is a small part (yellow box on an earlier day), mentioning that the alert reader should have noticed that the answer part in the question/show and the answer part in answer/recent (or something like that) are very much alike.
They don't give you the code (but the one in the svn repository should give you a good idea about what has to be done)

[Balth]

Thanks Bart,
It's on day 7, I didn't paid attention to it before. It's not necessary until day 9 so I will do it for day 9 (but not before).

I correct it in day 10, so have fun :

[Balth]

There is a probleme to me on day 11 with RSS Image part.

First, /sidebar/templates/defaultSuccess.php doesn't exist. To me it's /sidebar/templates/_default.php.

Then, <?php echo link_to('popular questions', [url=mailto:'@popular]'@popular[/url]_questions') ?> returns an error, I need to have <?php echo link_to('popular questions', 'question/list') ?>.

I don't know if I missed a step or if it's an error in the tuto... ~ ~

By the way, this is the code of the day, correct it if I wrong

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EDIT: second step corrected today, files re-uploaded

[Bart]

First, /sidebar/templates/defaultSuccess.php doesn't exist. To me it's /sidebar/templates/_default.php.

That is correct. I guess that symfony updates have something to do with this.

Then, <?php echo link_to('popular questions', [url=mailto:'@popular]'@popular[/url]_questions') ?> returns an error, I need to have <?php echo link_to('popular questions', 'question/list') ?>.

I don't know if I missed a step or if it's an error in the tuto... ~ ~

Which is the error?
Does popular_question exist in your routing.yml?

[Balth]

Sorry for being late in reply, I was working on day 12 & 13.

Error returned was:

Code: Select all

[sfException]
Route named "popular_questions" have a mandatory "page" parameter
stack trace

It's linked to my file routing.yml

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popular_questions:
  url:   /index/:page
  param: { module: question, action: list }

So I had to choose between :
- keeping old code in modules/sidebar/templates/_default.php
and
- cutting /:page in popular_question url in routing.yml

So I cutted /:page that's all.

[Balth]

Askeet day 12

[Bart]

your other option was this

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popular_questions:
  url:   /index/:page
  param: { module: question, action: list, page: 1 }

which means page = 1, if not provided

[Balth]

Askeet day 13

[Balth]

Hello,

Askeet day 14

[Balth]

Askeet day 15

Due to non backward-compatible changes in PHP 5.0.5, Simple Test is currently not working if you have a PHP version higher than 5.0.4. This should change shortly (an alpha version addressing this problem is available), but unfortunately the rest of this tutorial will probably not work if you have a later version.

Code: Select all

$ php -v
PHP 5.2.3-1

No askeet file for day 15. See you on day 16.

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Askeet day 16

Nothing, due to "lazy day"

[halfer]

I've not tried this, but just thought I'd say thanks on behalf of the community. I'm pointing other users to this thread ~ ~

[halfer]

I think this is worth making sticky. Could anyone who tries these tarfiles please give Balth feedback on this thread?

[Balth]

Hello,
Sorry for not continuing askeet tutorial but I was in hollidays and for now I'm working on an urgent project... ~ ~

Restart asap.

[Emacs]

The RSS feeds of the day 11 don't work...

[Balth]

The RSS feeds of the day 11 don't work...

Thank you for the feedback...
And the matter is ?

[Emacs]

This is the problem :

http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php/t/11082/

I've the same when I followed the tutorial myself and with your unofficial askeet files. I don't understand why...

[Balth]

Ok, thanks for details. However I don't understand why you have a problem. It works to me with my code (see attachment)

[Emacs]

Which Symfony version do you use ? I've got the latest one.

Could you give me please a zip archive, which contains the day 11 files and a dump of your MySQL database ?

Thank you for your answer.

[skyblaze]

i'm new to askeet....why the svn trunk repository doesn't contain the same content? Is the repository more updated than the turorial code?

[Bart]

i'm new to askeet....why the svn trunk repository doesn't contain the same content? Is the repository more updated than the turorial code?

Yes the svn repo is more updated, but isn't fully compatible with recent symfony versions and contains bugs.
The code in this thread is a user initiative and is probably better than the svn repo, but unofficial.

[skyblaze]

i'm new to askeet....why the svn trunk repository doesn't contain the same content? Is the repository more updated than the turorial code?

Yes the svn repo is more updated, but isn't fully compatible with recent symfony versions and contains bugs.
The code in this thread is a user initiative and is probably better than the svn repo, but unofficial.

so if i want some code of askeet (taken from the tutorial snippets not the svn repo) to be used in my project, do i have to worry? Will it work with actual stable release of symfony?

[skyblaze]

Do the symfony team have a project to update the symfony askeet tutorial and its relative svn code in the near future?

[plaginha]

Hi all,

I also had lots of problems to follow the tutorial. I stopped at day 10 with errors I could not solve.

So I decided to get day 10 from svn source. Forget it! I spent two days trying to make that work and... nothing!

Then I saw this forum and I decide to go to Day 2 to see if it looks nice. And it looks!!

But... two notes.
1. You relly need to edit config/databases.yml and propel.ini files. You also have to take a look at config.php file because the location of pear files depends on the Linux distribution you are using.
2. I'm using a postgres database insted of mysql. There's only one thing I cant't do in Day 2 with the code Balth supplied: insert a new question! It stops in a get sequence error, I don't remember if that problem happened when I followed askeet tutorial Day 2.

Thank's.
Pedro L.

[KayakJim]

Has any further work been done for the remaining days?

I was trying to follow the tutorial buy spent more time dealing with errors than actually learning how to use symfony. :/

These files got me back on track. Thanks a lot! ~ ~

[compidoc]

Yeah. This thread is great.

I first tried Symfony 1.1, but not even the "my first.." turorial did match the version.

With 1.0 the my first tutorial could be done, but askeet got me many grey hairs...

"If you're stuck, try the SVN..." NEVER... NEVER do that. I just had one little fault which i couldn't serve... after the SVN I had so much, that i gave up...

My experiences with symfony so far... the project is nice, the documentation is crap... thanks for this thread again.

[KayakJim]

"If you're stuck, try the SVN..." NEVER... NEVER do that. I just had one little fault which i couldn't serve... after the SVN I had so much, that i gave up...

My experiences with symfony so far... the project is nice, the documentation is crap... thanks for this thread again.

That is so true even today.

I will have one error. If I use the SVN files I then spend the next 2 hours fixing errors. What a great way to learn something new. :/

[halfer]

This thread is indeed great, but symfony's documentation is not crap, even if you have been having trouble with it. There is really no need to be offensive, especially given the quality of the documentation in general, and that you get it completely for free.

There are of course problems with Askeet - mainly in keeping it up-to-date as symfony has gone through version changes - but there are also plenty of people able to help you out on the fora. If either of you (KayakJim, compidoc) are still having issues, start a fresh thread here or get onto IRC.

[WolfEng]

I came up with a symfony 1.1 solution for the 5th day, where a custom validator is required, i think it's not a bad solution since I'm using sfForms, sfWidgets, sfValidators and a custom Validator for that part.

You'll find a readme.txt in the zip explaining where the files are supposed to be placed.

Please feel free to comment on the solution and/or ask if you have trouble, notice i'm only providing the files that can't be created straight out of the tutorial, so you'll propably have to have worked till 5th day yourself.

I made it till 8th day and i think i'm mostly sticking to 1.1, ask away if you have trouble on any previous days, i'll try to help out.

I'm currently stuck with a workaround to javascript helpers, because I've really worked with javascript/ajax... i guess it's a chance to learn. ~ ~

I hope this helps sumone.
Cheers!

.:Wolf;.