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If you get this message from PHPUnit: 'Class "Doctrine\ORM\Query" is declared "final"' Check out the following code:

We ran into a 'problem', where JavaScript could not process the dates given by PHP via JMS Serializer correctly.

I found out, that the date('c') does not create timezones like the needed '+20:00', but '+2000'.

Changing the 'c' to 'Y-m-d\TH:i:sP' fixes the whole thing. JMS Serializer configuration offers this here: http://jmsyst.com/bundles/JMSSerializerBundle/master/configuration

Creating a self-documenting buildfile sound reasonable, so lets do so.

I followed the idea on this site http://amazing-development.com/archives/2005/01/28/ant-help-target/ and created the following task in a project of mine:

Aim was to have a route, that will return a external url. This is not possible with Sf2, because only internal Urls can be generted by the standard framework.

But thanks to DependencyInjetion, it was quite easy to extend the UrlGenerator with the desired functionality.

Have a look at the code:

https://gist.github.com/h4cc/6112787

I fell for the handling of upstart with the stanza respawn documented here: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#respawn

Tried to redirect the stdout and stderr output of a script started via upstart to a file. This failed in a strange way, because multiple instances of the script were started. I used this code:

exec php /home/h4cc/foo.php &> /home/h4cc/foo.log

Solutions was to use this command instead:

exec php /home/h4cc/foo.php > /home/h4cc/foo.log 2>&1

The Symfony2 Swiftmailer does not send mails that are spooled in 'memory', because of a missing 'kernel.terminate' Event when used in a Command.

More on that: http://sgoettschkes.blogspot.de/2012/09/symfony-21-commands-and-swiftmailer.html

Solutions:

Use 'file' spooling and send mails with 'swiftmailer:spool:send'.

Add some code in the Command to flush spool by hand