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BBC PHP framework is Zend Framework, it's sad to see such a lie as one of the main selling points. If Symfony is used at all in BBC is perhaps only to experimen
by dewiz 14y ago
BBC PHP framework is Zend Framework, it's sad to see such a lie as one of the main selling points. If Symfony is used at all in BBC is perhaps only to experiment the alternatives.
- Seldaek 14y agoThey have at least confirmed they use Silex, which is based on Symfony components.
- dewiz 14y agoI don't know who you would mean with "they", but BBC doesn't use Symfony nor Silex. Feel free to contact BBC Future Media engineers, many of them are on linkedin. That history about Silex is ONE developer testing it on a pet project, which is a completely different thing than saying "BBC uses Symfony"
- malsme 14y agoAccording to a recent talk by a lead developer, the website does now implement Symfony2 components on top of the Zend Framework. https://speakerdeck.com/u/jcleveley/p/how-we-built-the-new-responsive-bbc-news-site https://speakerdeck.com/u/jcleveley/p/how-we-built-the-new-r...
- caseysoftware 14y agoMost large organizations use a variety of tools (and languages!) throughout. For example, odds are that BBC America uses a different set of tools than BBC proper. I seem to remember they were using Drupal at one point too. It's not an national thing but simply because each group has its own requirements and - unless there is strict governance over tools - people choose different solutions for different tradeoffs and things drift.