ERROR: Date_Calc is not installed – Dreamhost

ERROR: Date_Calc is not installed. You must install the date library. (with Dreamhost shared hosting)

ssh into ~

pear config-create $HOME .pearrc

install pear:

pear install -o PEAR

then install the date module

pear install pear/date

update the paths (can never get this part to work, so using the other method below)

export PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN=/usr/local/php5/bin/php
export PATH=/home/*****/pear:/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH

or include it this way: (index.php)

ini_set(
  'include_path',
  ini_get( 'include_path' ) . PATH_SEPARATOR . "/home/*****/pear/php"
);

Symfony: sfAssetsLibraryPlugin – troubleshooting

Right, so I have this scenario:

I exclude propel.ini from my sync’s with our web server. So after installing a few things i forgot to make the corresponding change online:

* Enable Propel behavior support in propel.ini:

propel.builder.AddBehaviors = true

So when running this (while installing sfAssetsLibraryPlugin):

symfony sfassetlibrary-create-root backend

I would get the following bastard of an error:

Creating root node at media…
PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined method sfAssetFolder::makeRoot() in /var/www/xxxx/plugins/sfAssetsLibraryPlugin/lib/model/sfAssetFolderPeer.php on line 36

Fatal error: Call to undefined method sfAssetFolder::makeRoot() in /var/www/xxxx/plugins/sfAssetsLibraryPlugin/lib/model/sfAssetFolderPeer.php on line 36

EXTRA NOTE: I also had to add this line at the end of the create function in sfAsset.php:

chmod($this->getFolderPath().”/”. $this->getFilename(), 0604);

This has something to do with the way dreamhost has permission setup and the above create root line.

(The error here was that you could not see the images once uploaded)

I did some work!! – sfContactGrabberPlugin

Today I released a plugin for Symfony, well, more of an update for an old broken one.

It feels quite good to finally give something back. You can find it here

It basically add’s those forms that you see all over the place on social networking esk type sites that allow you to grab contacts from your accounts in other places.

At the moment it’s only working for gmail and yahoo, but I might end up adding some more functionally in the future, all depending on how the current project im working on pans out.

TIP: symfony, svn and the cache

I was planning self reminder notes about my journey with Symfony. So here is the first:

after a svn checkout (for the first time) (which is before you exclude the cache and log files (sudo svn propedit svn:ignore log) you have to change the permission’s on the cache else you get an error. So if you happen to see:

[sfCacheException]
Unable to write cache file “/var/www/myproject/cache/frontend/dev/config/config_config_handlers.yml.php”

you need to do this: chmod -Rf 777 cache log