Written by COil
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on Dec. 6, 2019
In this post, we will see how to implement a simple honeypot in a Symfony form to avoid spam. We will try it on a newsletter form with a unique email field. We'll also log what is blocked by the trap to check if it works correctly.
Written by COil
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on Nov. 15, 2019
In this third and last part, we will continue to improve our search engine. First, we will enhance our elasticsearch stack with Kibana. Then, we will implement an autocomplete using an elasticsearch suggester.
Written by COil
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on Oct. 27, 2019
This is the second part of the tutorial. In this post, we will see how to improve our search engine to make is much more relevant. We will use an alias, create a custom command to populate the index. We will tune the search applying boosts to some fields and eventually, we will paginate the result…
Written by COil
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on Sep. 21, 2019
In this post, we will see how to create a full-text search engine with elasticsearch in a Symfony application. We will use Docker compose to set up an elasticsearch stack. We will try to keep the configuration as minimal as possible keeping the sensible default components values. In the end, on thi…
Written by COil
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on Aug. 22, 2019
In this post, we will see how to hide the front controller's file name of a Symfony application so it can't be accessed when typing it: "index.php". The less the users (or hackers of course) will know about the technical implementation of your website, the better it is.
Written by COil
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on Jun. 28, 2019
In this post, we will see how to implement a simple feature flag. This flag will help us to debug our forms and will allow to disable the HTML5 client side validation of all the forms of an application.