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Oct
3
Del.icio.us switches to Symfony
Filed Under PHP, Symfony | 6 Comments
The preview of the new version of hugely popular web 2.0 social bookmarking site del.icio.us has been available (to invited users) for a few weeks now. In the news this morning Yahoo! have confirmed that del.icio.us was rebuilt using the Symfony framework. From the announcement on the Symfony website:
Of course, Yahoo! extended and [...]
Oct
29
The release of the new Yahoo! Bookmarks beta has been on a number of news portals lately. Yahoo! Bookmarks has 20 million users, and is available in 12 languages (and counting). But the exciting news about the new Yahoo! Bookmarks is that it was built with Symfony.
Michael Salisbury, Technical Yahoo!, explained the reasons why Symfony [...]
Oct
25
SSL Redirect Filter for Symfony
Filed Under PHP, Security, Symfony | 7 Comments
Serving secure pages on a website is made a lot easier by having both your secure and insecure pages served by the same files - all you need to do is change the scheme from http:// to https:// and you’re done. But how do you manage which pages should redirect to the secure server? [...]
Oct
16
Symfony HTTP Authentication Filter
Filed Under PHP, Security, Symfony | 4 Comments
Every so often I need to password protect a web project so that only other developers or the client can access the site. I could build a user authentication system into the project itself, but that’d be overkill considering it won’t be used during the production life of the site. This leaves the [...]