Tutorials

This quick demo explains the basics of PHP objects.

When developing a complete Content Management System (CMS), the content for web pages is normally stored in the database. However, for our CIS-294 projects, we are taking a more hybrid approach where content is built into the Twig templates, with dynamic information added as needed.

This is covered somewhat in Part 4 of my TV Watchlist tutorial series, but this tutorial provides a simple approach for generating multiple different pages in your CIS-294 websites.

I have created a new YouTube series on[Building a TV watch list in Symfony. This six-part series demonstrates the basics of building a Symfony web project to store and display items in a TV watch list. This starter project is not feature complete, but demonstrates the principles needed to get started with Symfony, Twig templates, and the Easy Admin bundle.

When writing Symfony applications, you may find that you need to reuse some of your code over and over. A common example of this would be when writing separate controllers to manage different entity types in a REST API, where you need to authenticate the authorization header token for each request. Rather than including this method in each controller, this reusable code can be moved to a service which can be injected into all of your controllers as a dependency. With Symfony's autowiring enabled, adding a service is a quick and easy solution to avoid repeating code.

It's important to make sure that all REST API traffic is properly secured, but it's not practical to force applications to provide login credentials every time. Instead the API should return a reusable token during login, then the application should verify this token in the Authorization header for every request. JSON Web Tokens can be a good tool to satisfy this need.

Accessibility is not a black and white checklist, but rather a mindset of inclusion that guides how we create and measure the effectiveness of content for all users. HFC has many diverse populations, including English Learners (ELL/ESL), people with varying ability/disability and reading level, people who use assistive technologies, and people using phones/mobile devices to access our websites, and our accessibility practices create a better experience for everyone.

Visit the HFC Accessibility SharePoint site for the latest information.

This new video covers the following topics: Create ssh keys for authentication; load ssh agent in git bash; create and clone a new project; make changes and push to remote repository; publish changes to a web server.