I tried out Symfony (1.x) and I'm thankful for it. It's madness drove me to Rails, where I built some amazing stuff with! It was the entry drug that brought me over from php to the great (but at first sight scary) land of Ruby.
I like both codeigniter & cakephp.<p>codeigniter is super easy and joy to work with.
1> simple
2> great documentation (most amazing docs i have seen so far) + forum
3> you can not go wrong , its so easy to write apps using it<p>cakephp because of
1> "bake" utility to generate code from looking at table
2> easy to access database using models classes
3> built in auth component (and few other components at cake bakery)<p>never needed to look at anywhere else ;)
HTTP cache seems to be an important part of Symfony2. Does anyone have experience with that? (either in Symfony or another framework)<p>Is that the preferred caching method these days?