Usually, I’m using PHP for web projects, but currently I’m working on an application using ASP.NET’s MVC framework. In many frameworks (e.g. Zend Framework or CakePHP) there is some kind of messaging system (flash messages), which allows to save a message to the session and to display it on the next request. This is useful in many situations, but mostly used after saving forms. So for example you recieve a POST request to create a new record, you save the record, redirect the user to the overview page and inform him about successful creation through a flash message which you saved before doing the redirect. As I didn’t find a way how to achieve this in ASP.NET MVC, I started to build an own solution. The result is a combination of a base controller, an action filter and a flashmessenger object which is stored in the session. Please note that I’m not too familiar neither with ASP.NET nor with C#/.NET in general, so if there are things to improve please feel free to correct me.
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Just wanted to give symfony a try and ran into some issues to set it up the way I wanted. Therefore I’d like to note the required steps.
First, install symfony via PEAR.
pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
pear install symfony/symfony-1.2.4
This sould install symfony and make the symfony executable available in your PATH.
~$ symfony -V
symfony version 1.2.4 (/usr/share/php/symfony)
Create a directory for your vhost and create a new project.
mkdir /var/www/myproject
cd /var/www/myproject
symfony generate:project myproject
Create an example application in your project.
symfony generate:app frontend
Link the symfony resources to the project’s document root.
cd web
ln -s /usr/share/php/data/symfony/web/sf/
This should get you up and running with symfony. You just need to configure your server for the vhost. For personal preference, I’d like to have my document root directory named public instead of web. The following steps are needed to achive this.
Rename the document root directory.
mv web public
Add this line to config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php:
public function setup()
{
$this->setWebDir($this->getRootDir() . '/public');
// for compatibility / remove and enable only the plugins you want
$this->enableAllPluginsExcept(array('sfDoctrinePlugin', 'sfCompat10Plugin')$
}