[tags]yui, autocomplete, javascript, jquery, symfony[/tags]

So I started yesterday with Django, and I decided I didn’t want to futz with creating another mysql database that I’d need to manage, etc. Instead I’ll just use sqlite.

I wanted to keep my sqlite database within my project regardless of where I might move my project later. So I did this:

I confused a lot of people on IRC, but it’s really quite easy:

• __file__ is the filename of the current script, very similar to PHP’s __FILE__
• os.path.abspath calculates the absolute path, hence the absolute path of the current file
• os.path.join does all the nasty business of joining paths together and figuring out what type of slashes are needed, etc.
• ‘data/db.sqlite’ is a string

So really all we were doing is creating a relative path, but setting it absolutely.

[tags]geodjango, django, gis[/tags]

[tags]django, inheritance[/tags]

[tags]php, python, symfony, frameworks, programming[/tags]

I don’t fully understand utf-8 errors, but I’ve been getting this error.

[tags]php, cgi, path_info, nginx, symfony[/tags]

symfony and other applications rely on the server’s PATH_INFO being set properly. According to NCSA:

The extra path information, as given by the client. In other words, scripts can be accessed by their virtual pathname, followed by extra information at the end of this path. The extra information is sent as `PATH_INFO`. This information *should be decoded by the server* if it comes from a URL before it is passed to the CGI script.

Unfortunately, I use a nonstandard server that doesn’t natively support CGI, so everything sent to the FastCGI server is done so via parameters that are usually obtained from the HTTP request, but I can’t figure out how to do a urldecode in my configuration.

So to workaround this I used the auto_prepend_file directive in php.ini. With OP code caching this shouldn’t hurt too much:

auto_prepend_file = /var/www/pathinfofix.php

I then added the following script:

<?php 
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] = urldecode($_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO']);

Voila, the PATH_INFO is in a format that symfony (and any other PHP script that depends on PATH_INFO) needs.

[tags]firefox, cache, xpi, https[/tags]

[tags]jobs, yahoo, symfony[/tags]