I updated my old Symfony helper (see http://jnotes.jonasfischer.net/2010/03/smyfony-helper-for-jquerys-excellen-form-validation-plugin/) for the jQuery plugin “jquery.validate” (see http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation). It now supports embedded forms and is much simpler to use:

Usage

Simply insert the following code directly after the opening <form>-Tag:

< ?php $formId = 'myFormId' ?>
<form id="<?php echo $formId ?>">
< ?php
use_helper('jQueryValidator');
echo jquery_validate_form($form, $formId);
?>

This will add some css classes to the form widgets based on the validators configured in your form.

Then you can add more complex validation afterwards:

<script>
//Certificate name field is only required if a certificate is requested
$('#rdr_donation_cert_name').rules('add', {
  required: '#rdr_donation_certificate_1:checked'
});
</script>

In some cases you might want to access the jQuery-validate object itself:

<script>
 if (typeof < ?php echo $form->getName() ?>Validator !== 'undefined') {
  var donationCertificateValidator = < ?php echo $form->getName() ?>Validator; //jQuery.validate validator (instantiated in jquery_validate_form() helper)
  donationCertificateValidator.element($('#rdr_donation_cert_name'));
}
</script>

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The jQuery plugin “jquery.validate” provides an easy way to implement javascript form validation with nice error messages.

• Documentation and Download: http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/
• Demo: http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/

I wrote this little helper method to extract the validation rules from forms defined with the symfon form framework and to automatically create the jquery.validate code to validate those forms on the client side. Of course, server side validation will still work, too.

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I planned to use the sfFacebookConnectPlugin to pre-fill user a user profile form in one of my upcoming projects. At first I thought this would be no problem because the “More with Symfony” Book states:
“The terms of use of Facebook Connect clearly remind that one should not store any personal information about the user without the user explicitly agreeing about it, but the information provided can be used to fill forms and ask for confirmation in a click. Additionally, the website can rely on public information like name and profile picture without needing to store them.” (http://www.symfony-project.org/more-with-symfony/1_4/en/12-Developing-for-Facebook)

Unfortunately (or fortunately, because I had not invested too much time in developing the feature, yet), as a digged through the facebook api documentation, I read that this is no longer true:
“For example, we clarified that user data you get from the API is always subject to the restrictions on storage (so you shouldn’t pre-fill data in a form for users to submit to your application if you plan to store that data; users should enter that information directly)” (see http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=234 or http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=431#!/help.php?page=888)

ZipArchive seems to fail when adding the 1012th file.
I tested this with two different file sized and in bith cases ZipArchive::addFile() fails when adding the 1012th file. Strange.

Then I tested the same with the ZipArchiveImproved Class proposed by Farzad Ghanei (http://de.php.net/manual/de/function.ziparchive-addfile.php#88266) without problems.
I stopped testing after 5000 files without problems.

I tested this on two different machines both running PHP 5.2.6-3ubuntu4.2 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2

If you need to create a zip file and let the user stream its content while your script is still creating the archive, you should have a look at http://pablotron.org/software/zipstream-php/.
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