Alexander Rutz animaux

Forms have been an integral part of any interactive site since the dawn of time, they promote interactivity and are usually the most common way users interact with a site. It's commonplace that when a form is submitted, the website will take 'action' and do something with the data and then provide a user with the result. Symphony provides this logic layer via Events.

This tutorial assumes you have a basic understanding of how Events work in Symphony (if not, this may be a good introduction) and are semi comfortable writing some PHP code. I'll be showing you some of the lesser known features of Symphony Events, including event priority, event chaining and a brief demonstration of how to write a custom Event. The difficulty level progresses as we go through, but with any luck you'll be able to learn a thing or two :)

Getting Started

The Scenario

Our client requires a form that allows a user to submit some details about their new car purchase. Th

Sans jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})

Git-workflow vs feature branching

When working with Git, there are two prevailing workflows are Git workflow and feature branches. IMHO, being more of a subscriber to continuous integration, I feel that the feature branch workflow is better suited, and the focus of this article.

If you are new to Git and Git-workflows, I suggest reading the atlassian.com Git Workflow article in addition to this as there is more detail there than presented here.

I admit, using Bash in the command line with the standard configuration leaves a bit to be desired when it comes to awareness of state. A tool that I suggest using follows these instructions on setting up GIT Bash autocompletion. This tool will assist you to better visualize the state of a branc

Getting Started

I recently made my first map with MapBox's new WebGL+JavaScript API. There aren't many examples of how to do this yet, even on MapBox's API page, so I'll document my own experience here.

The Van Gogh Map

My map is made of several textures taken from Van Gogh paintings. The long-term goal is to allow a user to select which artworks they want to take textures from, but for now there is just one setting.

	var arr = ['a','b','c'];


	// 1. LOOKING AHEAD
	// -----------------------------
	for (var i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
	var next = arr[ (i+1) % arr.length ]; // <= THE MAGIC
	console.log(arr[i], "->", next);
	}

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
	<xsl:template match="/">

	<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><</xsl:text>!DOCTYPE html<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">></xsl:text>

	<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[
	<!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <html lang="en" class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8 lt-ie7"> <![endif]-->
	<!--[if IE 7 ]> <html lang="en" class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8"> <![endif]-->

	// the location we want to GeoCode
	var location = 'London';

	// we are using MapQuest's Nominatim service
	var geocode = 'http://open.mapquestapi.com/search?format=json&q=' + location;

	// use jQuery to call the API and get the JSON results
	$.getJSON(geocode, function(data) {
	// get lat + lon from first match
	var latlng = [data[0].lat, data[0].lon]

	<?php

	/**
	* Custom Datasource Skeleton
	*
	* A bare-bones example of a custom datasource for use with Symphony 2.3
	*
	* @author: Ian Young
	* @email: [email protected]
	* @date: 12.01.2014

	<?php

	// You run it with php-cli
	// i.e. php-cli import.php

	// I usually run in on the server via ssh.
	// I also usually put my scripts into manifest (to protect them from http access)

	// This scripts imports data from a csv...

	launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
	killall SystemUIServer

Alexander Rutz animaux

Getting Started

The Scenario

Sans jQuery

Events

Git-workflow vs feature branching

Getting Started

The Van Gogh Map

Why are we changing maps?