Entries from November 2007

Posting source code in WordPress: escaping and syntax highlighting the inserted code

Date November 4, 2007

I have already mentioned that I had difficulty in finding a suitable solution to post source code in my blog. However good the workaround presented in my previous post is functioning, I was not satisfied with it. I noticed two annoying things. The first was that I had to escape HTML special chars “manually” in [...]

Symfony form handling recipe

Date November 3, 2007

Symfony is a really great and well-thought-out framework, but I think its form handling support needs some more improvements. 5-6 years ago I developed an MVC framework as my thesis which has the following features related to form handling:

You can define forms logically (including labels, validation rules, error message parameters etc.) via form configuration files. [...]