Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony

October 28, 2006 · Published by Avatar of Francois Zaninotto Francois Zaninotto

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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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Comments

Avatar of Wally Punsapy
Wally Punsapy said on Oct 28, 2006
It was a pleasure to integrate symfony into Yahoo! I remember releasing Answers before y'all completed your tutorial =)

Much thanks!
Avatar of Ian
Ian said on Oct 28, 2006
This is a great milestone for the best PHP framework around!
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Peter Blazso said on Oct 28, 2006
Congratulations. Keep up the good work!!!
Avatar of brikou
brikou said on Oct 28, 2006
great, yahoo and I have choosen the right framework :)
Avatar of Jason Ibele
Jason Ibele said on Oct 28, 2006
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
Avatar of James McGlinn
James McGlinn said on Oct 28, 2006
Congratulations team - that's an awesome milestone to have achieved.

James
Avatar of Raul Santos
Raul Santos said on Oct 29, 2006
Congratulations, Symfony!

Keep up the excellent work! :)
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blandname.com said on Oct 29, 2006
Way to go guys!
Avatar of Jakub Nešetřil
Jakub Nešetřil said on Oct 29, 2006
Big congratulations guys! This is a truly exciting event both for symfony and its user community.
Avatar of Jonathan Chum
Jonathan Chum said on Oct 29, 2006
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!
Avatar of FlatPredator
FlatPredator said on Oct 29, 2006
I hoped something similar would happen. This is great for the framework and the community.
Congratulations!! :)
Avatar of Pierre Minnieur
Pierre Minnieur said on Oct 29, 2006
Great news, great software - everything's great! :)
Avatar of Kota Sakoda
Kota Sakoda said on Oct 29, 2006
Congratulations!
Avatar of Hags
Hags said on Oct 29, 2006
Congrats, guys! Great work!
Avatar of Mak
Mak said on Oct 29, 2006
You're linking to the digg submit feature, not to the actual article or digg page.

People are getting warned about dupes. :)
Avatar of mishal
mishal said on Oct 29, 2006
Greeeaaat!!!
Symfony rocks!!!!!!!
Avatar of halfer
halfer said on Oct 29, 2006
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.
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jhice said on Oct 30, 2006
Congratulations ! And happy birthday
Avatar of flod
flod said on Oct 30, 2006
A real acknowledgement of our beloved framework's power :)
Congratulations to the entire dev team and looking forward to these guys' additions to symfony.
Avatar of Fabian
Fabian said on Oct 30, 2006
awesome! :-)
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nautilebleu said on Oct 30, 2006
A great news for the team and all symfony users !
Avatar of Andréia Bohner
Andréia Bohner said on Oct 30, 2006
Symfony rocks!! :D

Congrats symfony team and thanks for this awesome PHP framework!
Avatar of Dejan Spasic
Dejan Spasic said on Nov 2, 2006
Congratulations!
Avatar of Boris
Boris said on Nov 3, 2006
Congratulations guys, Symfony go ahead.
Avatar of Benjamin G
Benjamin G said on Nov 4, 2006
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...
Avatar of ahmed
ahmed said on Nov 29, 2006
many congrats to symfony team!

Symfony rocks!
Avatar of Kamlesh
Kamlesh said on Nov 29, 2006
Hurrrreeeyyyy .. Its really wonderfull .. play while working and work while playing ..
Congrats Symfony!!!

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