TwigSfHelper2ExtensionsBundle Release

It has been a while since I published some code online, however lately I had some time to look through my things and see what I can package as a plugin/bundle.

Since I have started development with Symfony2 rather than only Symfony 1.x I ran ahead and created my first bundle; the TwigSfHelper2ExtensionsBundle. Simply said this bundle is just a port of some of the Symfony 1.x text and date helpers into Twig filters.

Twig Filters included

• distance_of_time_in_words: Displays two dates as “time ago”
• time_ago_in_words: Same as distance_of_time_in_words but shows the difference of now
• auto_link_text: Turns all urls and email addresses into clickable links. The +link+ parameter can limit what should be linked. Options are :all (default), :email_addresses, and :urls.
• excerpt_text: Extracts an excerpt from the +text+ surrounding the +phrase+ with a number of characters on each side determined by +radius+. If the phrase isn’t found, nil is returned. Ex: “hello my world” | excerpt(“my”, 3) => “…lo my wo…”
• simple_format_text: Returns +text+ transformed into html using very simple formatting rules Surrounds paragraphs with <tt>&lt;p&gt;</tt> tags, and converts line breaks into <tt>&lt;br /&gt;</tt> Two consecutive newlines(<tt>nn</tt>) are considered as a paragraph, one newline (<tt>n</tt>) is considered a linebreak, three or more consecutive newlines are turned into two newlines
• strip_links_text: Turns all links into words, like “<a href=”something”>else</a>” to “else”.

Installation

Step 1: Add bundle to your deps file

[TwigSfHelper2ExtensionsBundle] 
git=http://github.com/mozzymoz/TwigSfHelper2ExtensionsBundle.git 
target=bundles/JustMozzy/TwigSfHelper2ExtensionsBundle

Step 2 Add bundle to your autoload.php and AppKernel:

'JustMozzy' => __DIR__.'/../vendor/bundles'
new JustMozzy\TwigSfHelper2ExtensionsBundle\TwigSfHelper2ExtensionsBundle(),

 

 

Process Monitor

Just a quick dump of a recommendation I got earlier.

Process Monitor is a very useful tool if you need to see what processes are using which resources on your machine. Here’s a short overview from the website

Overview of Process Monitor Capabilities

Process Monitor includes powerful monitoring and filtering capabilities, including:

• More data captured for operation input and output parameters
• Non-destructive filters allow you to set filters without losing data
• Capture of thread stacks for each operation make it possible in many cases to identify the root cause of an operation
• Reliable capture of process details, including image path, command line, user and session ID
• Configurable and moveable columns for any event property
• Filters can be set for any data field, including fields not configured as columns
• Advanced logging architecture scales to tens of millions of captured events and gigabytes of log data
• Process tree tool shows relationship of all processes referenced in a trace
• Native log format preserves all data for loading in a different Process Monitor instance
• Process tooltip for easy viewing of process image information
• Detail tooltip allows convenient access to formatted data that doesn’t fit in the column
• Cancellable search
• Boot time logging of all operations

You can find the tool here