Second talk from the 2nd Athens Symfony Meetup

1. Trick -or- Tip
Symfony edition
Dionysis Tsoumas
Backend developer at Zoottle

2. Today’s Agenda
• Better commands
• Better autoloading
• Better logs
• Better security
and my favourite
Better Testing :)

3. Better Console Commands
Typical:
php app/console doctrine:schema:update —force —env=dev —no-debug
Better:
php app/console d:s:u —f

4. or even better..
dev d:s:u —f
where alias dev='php app/console --env=dev --no-debug'

5. Better autoloading
//composer.json
"autoload": {
"psr-0": { "": "src/" }
},
Instead:
"autoload": {
"psr-0": { "": "src/" }
},
“autoload-dev": {
"psr-0": { "": “src/ZoottleBundle/Tests/“ }
},

6. Of course don’t forget :
composer dump-autoload —optimize

7. Better logs

8. Hide event logs
//app/config/dev.yml
monolog:
handlers:
main:
type: stream
path: “%kernel.logs_dir%/%kernel.emvironment%.log”
level: debug
channels: “!event”

9. Secure Ajax Requests :)
Step 1: Create a simple
Twig extension
And an even
simpler service

10. Step 2: Use it on your ajax calls $.ajax({
async: true,
method: "POST",
url: "{{ path('geoip') }}",
data: "token={{ csrf_token() }}",
…
Step 3: Validate within your controller
public function customerHasCreditCardAction(Request $request)
{
if ($request->isXmlHttpRequest() && $this->get("ens_peewee.csrf_validator")->isValid()) {
$braintree = $this->get(“ens_peewee.braintree");
… do awesome stuff …
is valid?is ajax request?

11. • When smoke testing
Quick functional tests
• Or when your application is decoupled enough that performance really matters
“Smoke testing is a precondition to unit and other forms of testing: if the smoke test fails there's no point in even
starting up a unit test”
- some cool developer said

12. $client = static::createClient(array(), array('HTTP_HOST' => "panel.zoottle.dev"));
$this->assertEquals(200, $client->getResponse()->getStatusCode());
This is slow!
Instead:
protected function setUp(){
$this->app = new AppKernel(‘test’, false);
$this->app->boot();
}
public function testUrl($url){
$request = new Request::create($url, ‘GET’);
$response = $this->app->handle($request);
$this->assertEquals(200, $client->getResponse()->getStatusCode());
}
http://gnugat.github.io/2014/11/15/sf2-quick-functional-tests.html

13. But I need speed!
https://github.com/liuggio/fastest
Like Parallel — but it supports functional tests
#composer.json
"require-dev": {
"liuggio/fastest": "dev-master"
}

14. However it does not work with code coverage :’(
find src/ “*Test.php” | vendor/bin/fastest “vendor/bin/phpunit -c app/ {};”
Voila! Multiple threads for your tests
Tip: use system variables to deal with multiple databases
ex: getenv('ENV_TEST_CHANNEL_READABLE'); //eg. test_2

15. Questions?
How about helping Flash on his next
presentation? Find a topic that you like
and propose it for our next meetup, in
early summer!