GamesOfficer powered by symfony

Par COil, 27/10/2007 à 21:16 :: #24 :: rss :: Tags :: e-commerce

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[En] I didn't had much time to blog these last weeks... Indeed we were finishing a new project, an e-commerce website called GamesOfficer. And obviously, it is powered by the last stable version of symfony. (currently 1.0.8). What is GamesOfficer ? Well, it's quite like PriceMinister but exclusively about gaming universe. You can buy games (all platforms), accessories... (in france) I am involved in the development of this site since 5 month for the Splitgames company, and we are quiet proud of it ! About the use of symfony in this website:

26 plugins used (including 8 home made) (and 2 of mines Lightbox and TCPDF )
13 new helpers classes were developed (like JSON, generic ajax pager...)
19 specific new pake tasks
Some snippets of symfony were used and improved (like the TCPDF wiew, Array pager... )
Ajax helpers are used among the site, like in the advanced search

... quite hard to say all, i think developing this website without symfony would have take 3 more times !!! And moreover the site is really beautifull. Don't you like the GamesOfficer mascot ?

About symfony, the actual activity arround this framework is quite incredible. If you follow the "a week of symfony" blog post by Javier Eguiluz, it's not so hard to realize... I must say it's now hard to follow all new plugins ! I'll have to take some time to check and test the new ones ! But thanks for all contributors and perhaps symfony could make the coffee soon with the sfCoffeePlugin ?

Commentaires

1. Le 28/10/2007 à 22:33, par / by Javier Eguiluz

COiL, congratulations for your new project

Thank you very much for providing some technical information. I wonder if you could also reveal the ORM used (Propel, Doctrine or custom-made) and the type of cache mechanism used (sfSuperCachePlugin, custom plugin, other mechanism).

Cheers

2. Le 28/10/2007 à 23:29, par / by cyrille

Bravo, c'est vraiment une belle réalisation :).

3. Le 29/10/2007 à 15:49, par / by Neonard0

Excelent work, it's just perfect, and I actually agree with Javier could give us more especific details about your project, you know some information related with symfony.
And maybe, just maybe could you share some of your work, I know its hard but maybe some day not too long.
Again is a super great job. Congrats.
Cheers from Colombia

4. Le 30/10/2007 à 14:36, par / by COil

Thanks for your comments.

@Javier : Propel 1.2 is currently used, but indeed it could be interesting to switch to 1.3 as it seems to give more performance. Switching to doctrine would be really a long task due to the number of queries already written with propel (on 100+ tables...).

@Neonard0 : I don't have much time to contribute these days, may be a little later...

About caching, the native cache of sf is used + the sfOptimizerPlugin + APC

See you.

5. Le 30/11/2007 à 14:07, par / by xavier