O.K, this is my first post in English. I will try my best.

After symfony1.2 launched, Jobeet was introduced to the world for users to learn through developing it. The tutorial is very effective for symfony users. I also did the tutorial and learned a lot of symfony1.2 new feature.

Back to 2005, when symfony emerged, there was an application like Jobeet for symfony learners. The application was Askeet! I have used symfony since symfony0.6, and learned a lot from the Askeet tutorial that time. However, the tutorial had some small mistakes, and the source code you can get from svn repository and tar ball was a bit buggy. I struggled a lot to complete the tutorial. Maybe Fabien and Francois did it on purpose to motivate us to investigate inside of symfony further. Hehe. Currently nobody care the Askeet tutorial, because there is Jobeet, and Askeet tutorial is obsolete, since symfony is now 1.2!

Is Askeet just a tutorial? Even Askeet is an open source application, I have not encountered any web sites integrate Askeet. Why? I have some reasons in my mind. First, as I wrote on above, it is a bit buggy, such as same duplicate question title cause error, user_interest rule and related actions are never used, and etc. Second, even there was a cache chapter in the tutorial, more caching is needed for real world applications. Third, symfony is growing rapidly, which is good, but applications written by old version of symfony are hard to be taken care. Forth, there is no active source code repository for the application. Of course there is a repository for tutorial, but not for the application.

I was waiting for that somebody develops Askeet with symfony1.2, and give us its tutorial. Actually there were a couple tries in Japan, and I was excited about their work to finish…. BUT, after symfony team introduced Jobeet, everybody went to Jobeet, and the tries are gone to somewhere.

So, I did it!

Well, since I am too lazy, I’m not going to write tutorials for beginners, but I will give you some tips I found from the experience that I was developing Askeet with symfony1.2. I’m still working on caching strategy for this application, so any help is welcome. Actually my friend, akky, is helping for i18n now.

O.K, for today, I give you the current source code. License? Same as symfony! I’m using symfony1.2.4(current version:3/10/09). You can learn a lot of symfony features from the code I believe. Why I open the source code? Well, there are some reasons. First I love symfony and would like to contribute to symfony community, and second, askeet was an open source application, and why not to. Third, to show how much I can do. People will know my current skill, so that I might get job requests in the future. Finally, even I open the code, I know I am the one who know the code most.

You can download the source code from here:Askeet with symfony1.2

O.K. In a few weeks, I will probably post following topics which I found from developing Askeet with symfony1.2:

• Playing with sfForm
• Building complex Criteria
• Cross filtering between different models in Admin Generator
• Command task from Web

In English version, it works good. However my language, Japanese, has some problems because of full text search and multibyte issues. We are working on it now, and probably, I will post the fixed one later. Well, I need a svn repository, where to use?