• Francois Zaninotto
• over 2 years ago
• /blog/category/
• 8

A quick look at the analytics of the symfony website tells us a lot about what people need in addition to the symfony core. Here is the top 20 plugins based on the number of page views of the corresponding wiki pages in the last 30 days:

1. sfSimpleCMSPlugin
2. sfGuardPlugin
3. sfDoctrinePlugin
4. sfPropelActAsNestedSetBehaviorPlugin
5. sfMediaLibraryPlugin
6. sfSimpleBlogPlugin
7. sfSimpleForumPlugin
8. sfFeed2Plugin
9. sfgWidgetsPlugin
10. sfThumbnailPlugin
11. sfUJSPlugin
12. sfControlPanelPlugin
13. sfFormValidationPlugin
14. sfMogileFSPlugin
15. sfLightboxPlugin
16. sfCaptchaPlugin
17. sfNiftyPlugin
18. sfPrototypeWindowPlugin
19. sfPropelLoadbalancerPlugin
20. sfSavvyPlugin
21. sfYzClientSideValidationPlugin

Not surprisingly, the plugins that provide ready-to-use modules for common site features (CMS, user management, media management, etc.) are among the most popular. I believe that this trend confirms that symfony plugins can be seen like an extra layer on top of the framework, making web application development an even easier task than before.

Update: Somehow the sfDoctrine plugin had been forgotten, which is bad since it is in the third place. The error is now repaired, and the top 20 is now a top 21.

Comments

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  #1 Fabian said about 8 hours later

  sfPokaYoke is missning :(

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  #2 Paolo said about 10 hours later

  sfPokaYoke is a very good one.

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  #3 cagecomplex said 1 day later

  sad that sfDoctrine not appear in this list. In my opinion it should be on the top :)

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  #4 thomas said 1 day later

  It would be fun to see a list based on downloads or svn.

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  #5 Francois Zaninotto said 1 day later

  There is no "plugin" in the sfDoctrine wiki page, that's why it doesn't appear in this list. But that's a mistake in this post, and sfDoctrine is surely in the top 20, so I'll update the list accordingly.

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  #6 Markus.Staab said 1 day later

  the list is not shown correctly in FF 2.0.0.6 on WinXP-SP2. The Numbers in front are cut down. The indentation is missing..

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  #7 François Zaninotto said 1 day later

  Markus: you should refresh the page, the CSS has recently been modified to fix this problem.

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  #8 Markus.Staab said 2 days later

  thank you francois! there is also a little typo in the subtitle
  "Palce your bets" instead of "Place your bets"