Im struggling with Stof Doctrine Extensions - Translatable for Symfony2. It works fine but I want for my default locale to get data from the original entity, not from the ext_translations. If I don't need it I don't want to make extra queries to get this translations.
Is this possible to achieve that and If yes how I can make it ?
Getting the data from the original entity for the default locale does not seem to me like a good practice to begin with, considering that you may want to be able to change the default locale later.
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First time using api-platform and Symfony 4 to create an API interface for a MySQL db.
I'm updating an old search interface for the db for which I need to replicate many of the search options. This includes being able to search on a given field using various matching operators/strategies. e.g. starts with, contains exactly equals, etc.
I've set everything up for the api using Annotations.
The #ApiFilter(SearchFilter::class, properties={"fieldname": "strategy"} annotation on my table class works as designed, but I am limited to one-and-only-one strategy per field. I need to be able to pass the strategy to the api search function in the url. something like:
/api/staff?lastname[start]=dav
or
/api/staff?lastname=david&match=contains
or
/api/staff/lastname/son?searchtype=end
would be fine.
I can't figure out how to set this up. Shockingly, to me anyway, this common requirement doesn't seem to be documented at all.
The file CustomSearchFilter.php located at the repo https://github.com/jordonedavidson/custom_search_filter solves this use-case using the
/api/staff?lastname[start]=dav
syntax.
The file was written by Kévin Dunglas (the author of Api Platform) and is presented with his blessing.
In PhpStorm, I can change global, project or directories settings with existing SQL Dialects, but is there a way to configure SQL Dialects as Symfony/DQL in PhpStorm or a way to detect that App:Panel is a valid entity, not a table? (App:Panel table name is te_panel)
I read this answer which explains that we have to add a Java plugin, because it's currently not possible to add a new SQL Dialect on PhpStorm.
As example, this is an error that PhpStorm is throwing:
The : between App and Panel is not understood. It cannot understand the table name provided (because I provide the name of the Symfony entity).
DQL is not supported.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-9948 -- watch this ticket (star/vote/comment) to get notified on any progress.
You may try and treat App:Panel as placeholder (similar to how it was described in that linked question). But I have no ideas if it will help (have not really worked with Symfony/DQL so cannot test it myself).
What I may suggest though -- threat the whole query as plain text. Yes, no syntax highlighting and stuff but will not show errors either.
How? One way by placing special comment just before the string, e.g.
->query(/** #lang text */'SELECT ...');
Or by disabling Language Injection rule for SQL altogether.
Alternatively try what has been suggested in this comment -- custom SQL detection syntax(?): https://gist.github.com/willemnviljoen/d20ad8ad0cc365a7e80744328246610f
Preface: in ez4 i remember there was a tpl function to read ini settings, we used to use this to pass specific locations or id's with which we could then render certain content.
In ezplatform I am now doing the same thing but by using the PreContentViewListener (in the PreContentViewListener read a yml file and pass into the view as params), but this doesn't feel like the correct way as the PreContentViewListener doesn't always get triggered, in custom controllers for example.
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Is there a native way to read yaml files from within twig templates? After searching the docs and available packagists i cannot find anything :/
If your needs are simple (i.e. reading container parameters), you can also use eZ Publish config resolver component which is available in any Twig template with ezpublish.configResolver.
You can specify a siteaccess aware parameter in format <namespace>.<scope>.<param_name>, like this:
parameters:
app.default.param.name: 'Default param value'
app.eng.param.name: 'English param value'
app.cro.param.name: 'Croatian param value'
where default, eng and cro are different eZ Publish scopes.
You can then use the config resolver to fetch the parameter in current scope with:
{{ ezpublish.configResolver.parameter('param.name', 'app') }}
If you have Legacy Bridge installed, this even falls back to legacy INI settings if no Symfony container parameter exists:
{{ ezpublish.configResolver.parameter('SiteSettings.SiteName', 'site') }}
Disclaimer: Some say that using config resolver is bad practice, but for simpler usecases it is okay, IMO.
Have a look to our CjwPublishToolsBundle.
https://github.com/cjw-network/CjwPublishToolsBundle
https://github.com/cjw-network/CjwPublishToolsBundle/blob/master/Services/TwigConfigFunctionsService.php
Here we have 2 wrapper twig functions
{{cjw_config_resolver_get_parameter ( 'yamlvariablename', 'namespace default ezsettings') }}
=> ezpublish siteaccessmatching
{{cjw_config_get_parameter( 'mailer_transport' )}}
=> core symfony yaml reader without siteaccess
You could do a lot of things in eZ 4 and not always really good for your application design. ezini was able to read the configuration from the template but now in eZ Platform and by extension Symfony you need to respect more common patterns. IMO the view should not be that smart.
Then injecting variables to the view from a listener (PreContentViewListener or your own) is not a bad idea.
You can also use the Twig Globals that could allow you to do 2 global things:
inject variables (1)
inject a service (2)
Look here: https://symfony.com/doc/current/templating/global_variables.html
(2): please don't inject the service container globally it is bad
(1): I don't remember if the Twig Globals are Site Access aware, if not injecting your own service (2) to manage access to the config might be better.
And finally, I think that the use case is not a common one:
we used to use this to pass specific locations or id's with which we could then render certain content.
Most of the time it is a bad idea to pass ids coming from the configuration to render something, it is much better to organize the content structure to let you pull the location you want using the PHP API. (no id in configuration no hassle with dev, stage, preprod and prod architecture)
I'm using JMSI18nRoutingBundle for locale routing on our new site, but our existing site uses language + country in the following format and I need to keep the URLs looking the same.
example.com/us/en/hello (en_US)
example.com/be/fr/bonjour (fr_BE)
Is there any way to do this using config? If not, where is the best place to start customizing?
It doesn't look it's possible to do through config, but it can be done by replacing default implementation of PatternGenerationStrategyInterface by your own implementation.
You can check out default implementation that bundle uses here.
After you create your own implementation, just make bundle use your own implementation by setting the config parameter. If you're using YAML for example:
parameters:
jms_i18n_routing.pattern_generation_strategy.class: YourBundle\YourImplementationClass
Hint: you can basically copy/paste from default implementation and change line 69 to use str_replace('_', '/', $locale) instead of just $locale. That way, newly generated route pattern will contain a / if locale contains an _.
Not very elegant solution, but bundle unfortunately doesn't provide enough configuration to make it prettier.
I'm using the module "simplenews" and during the registration process it reads "Select the newsletter(s) to which you wish to subscribe.".
I'd like to change this line and wanted to ask what the best way is to do so without hard coding it?
Thanks in advance!
I've also done this with the custom english version just so I could override a few strings. It works and is easier than hook_form_alter, but it also creates a bit of unnecessary overhead, especially if your site is otherwise not localized/multilingual.
There is nowadays a light and easy solution, that uses the same locale system, but you don't need to setup a custom english language or code anything: the "String Overrides"-module.
http://drupalmodules.com/module/string-overrides
Surprisingly, it's one of the top rated modules, out of over 5000 module.
Since it's located in a form, an easy and quick solution would be to change it with hook_form_alter.
Another solution would be to create your own custom version of the language english in Drupal and then "translate" the string into something different.
You could also skip the translation part, and use your settings.php file. You can create some custom string override in it without enableling the locale module. From the default.settings.php file:
/**
* String overrides:
*
* To override specific strings on your site with or without enabling locale
* module, add an entry to this list. This functionality allows you to change
* a small number of your site's default English language interface strings.
*
* Remove the leading hash signs to enable.
*/
# $conf['locale_custom_strings_en'] = array(
# 'forum' => 'Discussion board',
# '#count min' => '#count minutes',
# );
Or you can use String Overrides. Some more details about this module (from its project page):
Provides a quick and easy way to replace any text on the site.
Features
Easily replace anything that's passed through t()
Locale support, allowing you to override strings in any language
Ability to import/export *.po files, for easy migration from the Locale module
Note that this is not a replacement to Locale as having thousands of overrides can cause more pain then benefit. Use this only if you need a few easy text changes.