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by Fabien Potencier – May 17, 2013

What happened last week in Symfony?

This week, Symfony 2.3.0 released its second and last beta version. Among other features, this version supports the interactive management of the parameters.yml file and some nice improvements for the Console component. In addition, the Symfony 2.1.10 maintainance version and the Twig 1.13.0 version were released.

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Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony
by Francois Zaninotto – October 28, 2006 – 27 comments

The release of the new Yahoo! Bookmarks Beta has been on all news portals lately. Check the screencast accompanying the news if you didn't hear about this great release. Yahoo! Bookmarks has 20 million users, and is available in 12 languages (and counting).

But the real news about the new Yahoo! Bookmarks is that it was built with symfony. Why did Yahoo! choose our framework? According to Michael Salisbury, Technical Yahoo!, who was kind enough to give us his feedback, the major strengths of symfony over its competitors are:

Great documentation
Explicit and extensive configurability
Active development
Use of best-of-breed components rather than building everything again

The documentation was the first reason to choose symfony. It reaches a unique quality and coverage in the open-source world.

Michael emphasized that the configurability of symfony made it possible not only to translate the interface, but also to propose different features to every country and localize the application completely.

The Beta Bookmarks frontend development time took about 12 man-months; they started it in mid-June and released it a few days ago. Of course, they extended and modified symfony to fit their needs, but what's great is that they could actually do it, and that they will contribute their modifications to the community.

We are very happy to announce that such a major player in the web world chose symfony. That's the best birthday present we could ever dream of. And we hope that it will convince more and more IT managers to discover and adopt symfony, which is definitely a professional framework adapted to high demand web applications.

Spread the word, celebrate, for symfony enters a new age!

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#1 Wally Punsapy said on the 2006/10/28 at 08:17

It was a pleasure to integrate symfony into Yahoo! I remember releasing Answers before y'all completed your tutorial =)

Much thanks!
#2 Ian said on the 2006/10/28 at 08:34

This is a great milestone for the best PHP framework around!
#3 Peter Blazso said on the 2006/10/28 at 15:01

Congratulations. Keep up the good work!!!
#4 brikou said on the 2006/10/28 at 15:28

great, yahoo and I have choosen the right framework :)
#5 Jason Ibele said on the 2006/10/28 at 18:33

Great news guys! We always knew symfony was a great framework, hopefully this puts to rest any questions people had about it's enterprise readiness.

Draven
#6 James McGlinn said on the 2006/10/28 at 22:26

Congratulations team - that's an awesome milestone to have achieved.

James
#7 Raul Santos said on the 2006/10/29 at 02:05

Congratulations, Symfony!

Keep up the excellent work! :)
#8 blandname.com said on the 2006/10/29 at 02:31

Way to go guys!
#9 Jakub NeÅ¡etÅ™il said on the 2006/10/29 at 05:37

Big congratulations guys! This is a truly exciting event both for symfony and its user community.
#10 Jonathan Chum said on the 2006/10/29 at 07:58

It was a joy to work with Symfony on this project. Documentation was top notch and the framework provided a lot of flexibility. Keep up the great work!
#11 FlatPredator said on the 2006/10/29 at 09:21

I hoped something similar would happen. This is great for the framework and the community.
Congratulations!! :)
#12 Pierre Minnieur said on the 2006/10/29 at 10:46

Great news, great software - everything's great! :)
#13 Kota Sakoda said on the 2006/10/29 at 15:10

Congratulations!
#14 Hags said on the 2006/10/29 at 19:20

Congrats, guys! Great work!
#15 Mak said on the 2006/10/29 at 19:21

You're linking to the digg submit feature, not to the actual article or digg page.

People are getting warned about dupes. :)
#16 mishal said on the 2006/10/29 at 20:58

Greeeaaat!!!
Symfony rocks!!!!!!!
#17 halfer said on the 2006/10/29 at 22:00

I think a hearty congratulations to the symfony team is much in order. It is good to see their hard work paid off with this kind of recognition. Meanwhile I look forward to seeing the contributions of the Bookmarks technical team back into the symfony core.
#18 jhice said on the 2006/10/30 at 00:54

Congratulations ! And happy birthday
#19 flod said on the 2006/10/30 at 10:09

A real acknowledgement of our beloved framework's power :)
Congratulations to the entire dev team and looking forward to these guys' additions to symfony.
#20 Fabian said on the 2006/10/30 at 10:43

awesome! :-)
#21 nautilebleu said on the 2006/10/30 at 12:33

A great news for the team and all symfony users !
#22 AndrÃ©ia Bohner said on the 2006/10/30 at 13:42

Symfony rocks!! :D

Congrats symfony team and thanks for this awesome PHP framework!
#23 Dejan Spasic said on the 2006/11/02 at 11:55

Congratulations!
#24 Boris said on the 2006/11/03 at 04:43

Congratulations guys, Symfony go ahead.
#25 Benjamin G said on the 2006/11/04 at 20:51

I would be curious to know what they mean exactly by "using" symfony : what did they keep, what did they throw away (DB layer with propel supposed to be slow ? symfony UI/ajax helpers ? routing configuration ? filters ? Did they integrate Yahoo UI tools into the framework ? etc...)

Because with symfony being so "configurable", what they're using of this great framework could be much different from what I'm using...
#26 ahmed said on the 2006/11/29 at 09:14

many congrats to symfony team!

Symfony rocks!
#27 Kamlesh said on the 2006/11/29 at 09:21

Hurrrreeeyyyy .. Its really wonderfull .. play while working and work while playing ..
Congrats Symfony!!!