A todo list to check if your application is finished !

[El Riiico]

Hello,

I've just release a Cheat Sheet about the elements to check on your symfony application before the deployment to production.

I began to write it as an article, but finally I found that building some kind of todo list would more useful.


And Voilà, symfony-check.org is born !

Of course suggestions and corrections are very welcome, my english is (realy) far to be perfect, and I still have many things to learn about smyfony.

[eljwc]

awesome!

Thanks loads

[drahpal]

Nice! very useful!

Thanks

[camason]

"dedicated threat" =>
"dedicated thread"

~ ~

[El Riiico]

Typo corrected, thank you camason.

[phidah]

How about "Make sure your _dev environment is off or secure?
I've seen soooo many symfony sites with the development environment open.

[El Riiico]

It's written in "Custom rsync_exclude.txt"

http://symfony-check.org/en/#todo14

[alecs]

Rename the session coockie
I think it should be cookie

[El Riiico]

@alecs

Typo fixed, thanks.

[benhaines]

Great idea and will be very useful. Many thanks!

This should be added to the Appendix in the book ~ ~

[jugjug]

Typo in section "Website Temporary Unavailable":

mySfProject/apps/frontend/config/unavailable.php
mySfProject/config/unavailable.php


instead of

mySfProject/apps/frontend/config/unavaible.php
mySfProject/config/unavaible.php

[El Riiico]

It's fixed, thanks jugjug.

[jamiel]

Update your keywords and description in view.yml to remove all the symfony stuff.

[benhaines]

We are getting really picky now... but:

"symfony check is an UI Studio creation"

Should be...

"symfony check is a UI Studio creation"

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/591/01/

[sposch]

great idea

typos:

"unavaible" -> "unavailable"

"custom the language of your pages" -> "customIZE the language of your pages"

[El Riiico]

@benhaines, @sposch : typos fixed, tanks ~ ~

@jamiel : I think I'm going to add a "Cutomize titles and metas" todo.


Additionnal features I'm thinking about :
- Adding tags so you can filter todos : design, performance, security
- Adding a cookie system that saves which todo you have already check and what is your favorite todo order

Won't be before next week.

[sposch]

I'll offer to translate all that into german as soon as you're done with the page.

[xdade]

really useful, I have learned more of something new! thanks

[phidah]

It's written in "Custom rsync_exclude.txt"

http://symfony-check.org/en/#todo14

That will require that you use rsync ~ ~

[halfer]

great idea

typos:

"unavaible" -> "unavailable"

"custom the language of your pages" -> "customIZE the language of your pages"

Or, to be really pedantic: 'customise' may be the preferred spelling, depending on where you're from! ~ ~

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_sp elling_differences#-ise.2C_-ize

[halfer]

Good work, btw. Found a few more:

catchs => catches

Usefull => Useful

an other => another

environement => environment

wich => which

APC is one of the most popular one => APC is one of the most popular ones

not enabled => disabled (you can say either, but I think this sounds better)

can't be anymore saved into cache => cannot be cached (or "can no longer be cached")

these operations will sensibly slow down your application => these operations will substantially slow down your application

(substantially means "a lot", sensibly means "reasonably, sane")

[El Riiico]

@sposch

Thanks. When the english list will be stable enought, I plan to open the administration of the site to translators. It could take some time, because I'd like to set up a system that will alert translators when a part of the english content is modified.

@halfer

Fixed. Thank you for all your corrections.

[asdf072]

I was going to say that it's "customize," not "customise," but I couldn't bear bringing up another misspell after you've done this for everyone. ~ ~

Thank you!

[benhaines]

asdf072,

That all depends on which side of the pond you live!

English - use 's'
American English - use 'z'

~ ~

[asdf072]

A thousand pardons. I suppose we should stick with the Queen's English, then. (Anyhow, it makes me feel international, like when I go into a shoppe instead of a shop ~ ~

[alecs]

@benhaines

English is not my native english, but, from what i have learned in school, I reember that is "a car" and "an apple" ...
i think it should be "AN ui"...

[joshiausdemwald]

Regarding Point 11:

A solution can be to use several domains :

* http://my-app.com for the frontend
* http://my-app-backend.com for the backend

Personnaly, I prefer use some sub domains for each application :

* http://my-app.com for the frontend
* http://admin.my-app.com for the backend

Perhaps you could also mention the almost more simple solution of putting the front controller (named "admin.php" or something like that) into a subfolder, e.g. ./web/Admin and rename it to "index.php"

That would also prevent the script from being part of the uri (if the corresponing flag in your configuration isset, though)

[benhaines]

@alecs

http://www.ehow.com/how_2221937_use-vs-sentence.html

See Step 4 for the exception. It is 'a' UI... trust me ~ ~

The english language is crazy I tell you! It plays tricks on you!

[halfer]

@benhaines

English is not my native english, but, from what i have learned in school, I reember that is "a car" and "an apple" ...
i think it should be "AN ui"...

Nearly. Words beginning with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) use "an" and others use "a". However UI is an acronym, and is pronounced "yoo-eye". Hence "a" sounds more correct. I think if the phonetic pronunciation of an acronym sounds like it begins with a vowel, "an" would be preferred.

[El Riiico]

A new version is online.

When you want to check a todo, the clickable zone is larger.

I've removed the french version.
It was a big decision, but dealing with several versions and building a clean way to let people contribute to translations was just to much work.
Giving it up has helped me to move forward. I don't think french version will come, even if it's just so painfull for me to write in english.

I've added Tags to filter todos

I've added informations about the way to test the pages that you want to customize.

I've added pictures of the error pages, with a lightbox zoom.

The website now degrades gracefully when Javascript is off.

"Customize" is now written with the american spelling, with a "Z".


The code of the site has been refactored. If someone is interrested, I could share the source...

[benhaines]

Thanks for the update. Great new features.

One issue is that I can't seem to see any tickbox anymore? I can still click to the left hand side of a item and it will grey out, but not tickbox like the first version.

[El Riiico]

It was a bug. It's fixed.

[jarod51]

Nice work

Need it in a PDF cheat sheet now to insert it in my cheat sheet book please ~ ~

[El Riiico]

Hmm, why not, I'll think about it.

The next step will probably to add a little blog and a way to let people comment the todos.

[bigm]

Just wanted to say fantastic site!! Thanks for the effort you've put into it!

[develop7]

Hi.

In Opera 9.64 it looks pretty weird — I've attached an screenshot.
<img src="index.php/fa/1168/0/" border=0 alt="index.php/fa/1168/0/">

Thanks.

[El Riiico]

@develop7 It was due to a tag that was not close, I should have run the w3c valdator.

I've got a great news:
For an important project, I have to implement Selenium. For my first try, I've decided to try it on symfony-check.

It's awesome !

I've decided to publish my selenium tests online to let people discover this amazing tool.

Here is the symfony check selenium test page.

[El Riiico]

Done !

Symfony-check is released on google code.


<img src="http://symfony-check.org/images/logo.png" border=0 alt="http://symfony-check.org/images/logo.png">

[El Riiico]

I've added a new performance todo

Optimize your routes

The symfony routing system is one of the killer features of the framework.

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<p>Please have a look on <?php echo link_to('our products', 'product/index') ?>.</p>


Indicate in your template which `module/action` you want and then let `routing.yml` do all the job.

You can use the default rule:

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default:
  url:   /:module/:action/*


Or add a dedicated one:

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product_list:
  url:     /our-products
  param:   { module: product, action: index }


Clear your cache and all the related links and uri will be modified, all over the application.

It feels like magic, but it has a cost.

Each time the url request `product/index` is found in a template, symfony has to scan all the rules defined in `routing.yml` and guess which one can handle this request.
The default rule ? An other one ?

This search is done for all the links...

If your project have many pages and many routing rules, you can speed up your application by using rule labels instead of a module/action pairs in your templates:

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<p>Please have a look on <?php echo link_to('our products', '@product_list') ?>.</p>


This solution will speed up the routing, but the disadvantage is that internal links become less self-evident.

It's up to you.



Read the related symfony documentation

[Ases]

It sounds obvious but it's important for performance.

Check if xdebug is deactivated on production server.