If you have already used SonataPage and SonataMedia, you know how
powerful they are for managing content and media on your site. In
this article, I am going to show you how to extend these tools to
easily add Open Graph tags to your pages to enhance their sharing
on social networks.
Why Open Graph tags?
Open Graph (OG) tags are meta-tags that you can add to your pages
to define titles, descriptions, images, and other information that
will be used when the page ...
If you're using the SonataPage bundle, you may have noticed that
some of the blocks offered are unnecessary or
non-functional.We'll discuss how to hide these blocks from
the list cleanly, with a configuration file, and by overriding the
admin templates of SonataPage.
1 – The Configuration
We need to create a list of services that we don't want to display.
This list will naturally go into the parameters of our services
file:
#con...
In this article, we will learn how to add an admin panel without
entities in a Symfony 6.2 project using Sonata Admin 5.
Our project base will be to create a simple file upload
interface. But you could make any application. Including adding
simple text.
1. Installing Sonata Admin Bundle
If you haven't already installed Sonata Admin, you can do so with
composer:
composer require sonata-project/admin-bundle
We invite you to browse our site to install Son...
Today, we're going to see how to create a custom email transport
with Symfony Mailer. For the example, we'll create a transport
named “pt”.
Prerequisites
Before we begin, make sure you have installed and configured
Symfony Mailer and HttpClient in your project. You can add them to
your project using the following commands:
composer require symfony/mailer
composer require symfony/http-client
Creating the Transport Class
The first thing to do is...
It is not uncommon to have multiple databases for a single
project. Normally, when two databases are used, entities can be
organized into specific directories that are declared in your
configuration. In this case, the system will use the connection
configured for the entity directory. You can see an example of
multiple connections here Symfony
4 / Sonata: managing a multi-server admin interface
Let's assume that we want to point to a read-only database (a
...
Okay, you are like me. Your machine has nothing installed locally. Not even composer nor PHP in CLI!While you use PHP and maybe even Symfony (or not), you need to use composer daily. You use PhpStorm every day and think it's a shame not to benefit from all the options of your IDE, especially everything related to composer and the Symfony console. So how do you configure PhpStorm to specify that the composer for your project is located in the docker image?Here is an example of docker-compose.y...
Following the article written by Thomas Bourdin SYMFONY
/ SONATA: ADDING A CLONE FUNCTION TO A CRUD, we are going
to show how, in a very simple way, we can add custom actions to an
interface.
On the Dashboard:
But we are also going to see how to simply and generically
customize the custom actions of the listing, your CRUD’s header
and finally how to add actions for batch processing.
For my example, I started with a very simple table called
...
PHP/Docker Configuration
If you are developing with Symfony, installed in a docker compose
and still not using the debugger, then this article is for you. We
are going to show you how to prepare your environment so you no
longer have to do dd() or var_dump. Once you have tasted the joys
of debugging, you won't be able to do without it, as it will
greatly enhance your comfort.
For this article you need to have a Symfony app powered by
apache/php (or nginx and...
Here's a question I recently pondered. Usually, I install QA tools directly on my host or in the Docker image. If tools are installed on my host, there's no problem configuring PhpStorm. If the tools are directly configured in the Docker image, there's also no problem using them within the image. However, how can one combine the power of PhpStorm and Docker to link the two? So, here’s how to proceed with the installation of php_codesniffer, Mess Detector, CS Fixer, PSalm, PhpStan.
...
If you have a specific need to transform data between the form and the recording of your entity and think that this transformation code should be located in a service because it makes more sense, you can use the dataMapper by utilizing the dependency injection provided by Symfony. But how to implement it? A small reminder about the DataMapper. If we agree with the official Symfony documentation regarding DataMapper and DataTransformer, a dataMapper has the responsibility to read and write an ...
In this example, we will take the concrete case of a simple
interface that includes multiple elements. We have chosen to
use a "Projects" table in which we will assign documents.
Therefore, for a project, we can assign several documents. And
to facilitate administration, we will ensure that we can manage
our nested interface directly within the edit view of our
project.We need to create the schema. Firstly, we
import our current schema into MysqlWorbench usi...
We have seen in previous articles how to initialize a Symfony 6 + Sonata 5 project with media and users in a secure admin. We then looked at how to manage user localizations.Now we will see how to install and manage classifications.
We proceed with the installation of the latest version to date.
php8.1 composer.phar require sonata-project/classification-bundle:5.x-dev
Apparently, we have a configuration error.
Unrecognized option "media" under "sonata_classification.class". Availabl...
We saw in a previous article how to install Symfony 6 +
Sonata Admin 5 with user and media management. We will
continue this installation with the configuration of languages and
time zones. We will install intlBundle which allows to
manage localized display.
php8.1 composer.phar require sonata-project/intl-bundle
We take this opportunity to add a timezone and locale field to the
user.To do this, we will extend userBundle and add a field in
the admin...
Here are the commands to initialize a Symfony project with
a secure admin.
To run Symfony 6 we will need to install php8.0 or php8.1
For php8.0
sudo apt-get install php8.0-cli libapache2-mod-php8.0 php8.0-common php8.0-opcache php8.0-igbinary php8.0-imagick php8.0-msgpack php8.0-readline php8.0-memcached php8.0-xml php8.0-mbstring php8.0-gd php8.0-mysql php8.0-curl php8.0-intl php8.0-memcache php8.0-memcached memcached libapache2-mod-php8.0 php8.0-zip php8.0-mysql
For...
Here we will see how to create a second interface while the entity is already in use in a CRUD interface.The problem with automatically generated interfaces is that they use the name of the entity to construct the routes.If we configure a second interface with an entity that is already used, we will end up with the same route as the first.To address this issue, we will use these two parameters in our admin class to override the default values.Suppose we are using the entity "model", we could...
We will see how to set up a multilingual admin interface with a language selection button (language switcher).Installing translationBundle
composer require sonata-project/translation-bundle
bin/console assets:install
The language switcher requires a specific twig filter.Otherwise, you will get an error like:Unknown "language_name" filter.Then, you need to install these two bundles
composer require twig/intl-extra
composer require twig/extra-bundle
bin/console cache:clear
We add the default c...
We will see how to manage an admin interface that connects
to multiple servers.In our example, we have set up a default
MySQL server that manages our admin interface. Users, media,
etc.And we have set up a PostgreSQL server that contains a
table we wish to manage.We can add as many servers as we wish.
Our MySQL Server
We have traditionally set up a Symfony Sonata instance by default
with a classic MySQL connection. So we can create our database,
the schema, and...
We are going to see how to exploit Jsonb field types from PostgreSQL in a generated interface of Sonata.We start with the assumption that you already master the basic concepts of Symfony, Sonata, and PostgreSQL.First, let's create a simple table in PostgreSQL that will contain a Jsonb field.
CREATE SEQUENCE public.table1_id_seq;
CREATE TABLE public.table1 (
id integer DEFAULT nextval('public.table1_id_seq'::regclass) NOT NULL,
var1 character varying(250...
We are going to see how we can create a custom field type. In our example, we want a field that has the same rendering as a MoneyType field but in which we can add any suffix, as the money field only accepts currencies. However, in our project we want to use kilograms, months or even kilometers. In short, a whole range of possible data types.We start by creating our Type class:
<?php
// src/Form/Type/NumberSuffixType.php
namespace App\Form\Type;
use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
u...
One of the recurring needs of a web project is the need for global parameters for your application. Generally, these are stored in a yml file and that's all you need. But it gets complicated when the client asks to be able to have control over them.Give them FTP/SSH access to modify them? No, definitely not. Especially if it’s to delegate this task to an intern.You will need to provide them with an admin interface with a form to be able to modify these parameters.In our case, we only need a ...