These functions and hooks let you customise the output of the_excerpt() template tag. Just copy and paste into the functions.php file in your theme. This works for both posts and pages.

Back in April I posted a Snippet on Symfony Form Formatters. Since then I’ve done a bit more work with them and thought I’d share my custom form formatter for displaying forms as definition lists. Forms are often marked up as unordered lists, but with their label-input structure I find they often make semantic sense as definition lists.

By default Symfony displays forms in tables, with each new input being a table row. If you want to display your forms more semantically with fieldsets and lists, Symfony has a list formatter built in. You can tell an individual form to display as a list using the code below.

I often forget how to set default values for form fields. Mainly because it’s a function of sfForm rather than sfFormField I think. I the snippet below ‘field’ you are setting the default value for, and $value should be the default value.

The following snippets provide access to the Symfony User object from various parts of a Symfony project.

Place this line of code in the configure method of a Symfony form to allow the saving of additional fields.