About me
Mike van Riel is a Senior Software Developer at Unet BV, an ISP for the corporate segment based in the Netherlands.
With a passion for industry standards and Quality Assurance he loves nothing more than to discuss methods to improve code and ways to 'Do-It-Better'™ in general.
Aside from the regular talk about PHP and web-based technologies he also occasionally tends to write about his personal life, opinions and hobbies.
Symfony plugin released!
A few days ago I blogged about the lack of Row Level Access control in symfony. Although I still have too little time I was seduced to try and tackle this problem.
The result is clear! A new plugin was born and it is available for all to enjoy at http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfPropelRowLevelAccessBehaviorPlugin.
It is very easy to use, [...]
Row level ACL on symfony
Even though sfGuardPlugin is a great ACL plug-in; it unfortunately cannot handle Row Level Access. In most of my personal projects I require such a level of control and the solutions chosen always feel a bit ..hackish..
Using Symfony’s Lime in phpUnderControl
Do you know phpUnderControl?
Do you know and use Lime?
If you answered ‘Yes’ to the questions above then you will likely have tried to integrate Lime into phpUnderControl. So have I..
What I discovered was that there are 3 ways in which this problem can be solved.
Use Lime’s xUnit output mechanism, only available in Symfony [...]
Changed theming to use Crossbrand
I have not blogged in a while due to personal circumstances, like having started on a new job which keeps intensifying, but also because I was unsatisfied with the way my sites handle templating.
Let me explain, I have a shared webhosting account and run multiple domains and subdomains. Some (actually most) of them require the [...]
Validating an e-mail address according to RFC 2822
E-mail addresses are bitches!
There, now that is said I can tell why.
Should you ever have time on your hands you should read RFC 2822, it provides an interesting (though somewhat dull) background into e-mail messaging. Alas one can also see why it is so hard to validate an e-mail address, it is an extremely flexible [...]
Generating passwords in PHP
There are those things you encounter again and again and again. Generating passwords is one of those. My experience is that whenever an application needs to be created which deals with user account creation, it is best to let my application create a password for the user.
Why? Simply, I am lazy.
Good developers and users alike [...]