Chive: phpMyAdmin alternative?
Update: It was announced in July 2014 that Chive is no longer actively developed and maintained. I recently discovered Chive from Yii‘s home page, one of my most frequently visited …
Yii: Soft delete behavior
In general I don’t physically delete records in database. I use soft delete, so that data are easier to recover and re-instate. However, soft delete is not available in Yii. Codes generated …
Symfony and Doctrine: Keep the deleted record
In most of the projects I work on, when ‘deleting’ a record, it’s preferred to mark it as deleted than physically deleting the record. This makes re-instating a record easier. The common …
Symfony and Doctrine: Default table collation, a better solution
As of symfony 1.4 and if working with doctrine, there are still problem setting default and correct table encoding and collations with symfony doctrine:build task. I have previously posted 2 …
Symfony: Doctrine build-all and table collation
When working on Symfony project it’s common to run symfony doctrine:build-all (update – in V1.4 symfony doctrine:build –all) constantly. But after the command is run, the collation / encoding is …