Freegli.com

Check our website to get, every day at 10:10 am, an iPhone/iPad game for free.

Only available in french, but games are often in english.

This site has been written in PHP with symfony 1.4 [1] framework and doctrine 1.2 ORM [2] with MySQL.

It's basically a catalogue website with private pages. The hard part is, what you will never see, the back office. It allows freegli team to track apps from iTunes store, handle users' subscriptions and push notification (and much more indeed).

But the major part of traffic comes from the iPhone app via Rest webservices. To speed up this webservices, pages are served through a reverse proxy called Varnish [3].

The v2 is currently under development. It will be powered by Symfony2 [4] PHP framework and PostgreSQL database (with Pomm [5] component). This new version will be able to scale up with the constant increase of success of our service.

You can find some of my work under MIT license on Github:

[1]symfony is a full stack framework written in PHP 5.2. See symfony project website.
[2]Doctrine is a ORM base on the Active Record design pattern. See doctrine website.
[3]Varnish is a reverse proxy able to improve your website performances. See Varnish website.
[4]Symfony2 is a full stack framework written in PHP 5.3. See Symfony website.
[5]Pomm is an Object Model Manager for Postgresql. See Pomm website.