I've looked through some source code in the Symfony 2 components. The code is well organized, commented, and most of all it is of high quality.<p>As far as I am concerned, Symfony 2 is the gold standard example for developing a PHP project of any kind.
If you need a lightweight - Sinatra like framework check <a href="http://silex-project.org/" rel="nofollow">http://silex-project.org/</a> it is built from Symfony components and works like a charm
The project team did an amazing job with this release. I'm not a Symfony user myself, but their website is very professional and well organized and the documentation is excellent -- very thorough and updated for the new release.<p>Beyond methodology and community, one of the major decisions involved when selecting a framework is being confident that your codebase will be supported in the near future. The Symfony developers and community seem very committed to their framework. Great Job!
I'm woking with Symfony 2 now for a half-year. And I can say that it is brilliant. Dependency Injection that they have implemented is a really nice feature.
It is also great that it consists of de-coupled components. You can use any of the components including Dependency Injection in ur PHP projects.
For those wants to know more about Symfony, I can assure you Symfony and Yii are at different leagues. Symfony is so much more featured than any PHP framework out there.
Yml based settings and modeling plus the Admin Generator is one of a kind. I believe it is even better than Django and Rails, when it comes to flexibility and extensibility.
Congratulations to Fabien and the Sensio team! Fabien is an amazing evangelist for the framework, and I've had the good fortune to attend Fabien's talks on multiple occasions. I've used Symfony since 2007 and it's clear the framework has staying power and significant adoption with each new year. Congrats again!
I'm currently in process of building compatibility layers from our two old PHP frameworks (MidCOM and Midgard MVC) to Symfony, and have been very pleasantly surprised with both the code quality and the responsiveness of the community.<p>As part of this work I will also write new Symfony2 bundles for whatever functiolity our old frameworks had a SF2 misses. The first one is the ability to run Symfony2 apps under AppServer-in-PHP, a pure-PHP application/HTTP server. No Apache required! :-)<p><a href="https://github.com/bergie/MidgardAppServerBundle" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bergie/MidgardAppServerBundle</a>
I wish they would stop referring to their documentation as a "book." The keep calling the link to <a href="http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/index.html</a> as their book, yet it offers no ebook manner of being accessed (my kingdom for a PDF.)<p>I can't help but wonder who this "book" is being marketed to because of this "you can only access the book while you're fully online" limitation.
> <i>Everything is a Bundle in Symfony2: A bundle is a directory containing a set of files (PHP files, stylesheets, JavaScripts, images, ...) that implement a single feature (a blog, a forum, etc). That changes everything. Share your bundles between your projects or publish them in the wild.</i><p>I have no idea whether this is novel, but it is to me, and I <i>really</i> like it.
Very, very excited about this and have been for some time, congratulations to the team on the release! For those that don't know it, Symfony is a very impressive framework that puts a lot more into "Doing Things Right" than most other PHP frameworks, and some of their components (such as Assetic) are amazing contributions to the PHP ecosystem in their own right.
Congrats to Symfony2 Team!<p>FYI, Symfony2 requires minimum PHP version 5.3.2<p>PHP 5.3 which is not something every shared hosting provider will support, most are still on 5.2.series. so everyone should keep that in mind while writing PHP app with Symfony2
I'd never heard of Symfony before. Can someone point to some tech details about the framework? The site does a lot of explaining what a framework is, and some general philosophies - but not what this particular framework is.
have been using Symfony since 2007. Today it powers the backend and website of my gaming startup and we still love it very much.
Project is still SF 1.4 though, would love to upgrade to 2.0 but that would be too much work right now as 2.0 changes alot of basic principles.
I highly recommend Yii ( <a href="http://www.yiiframework.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.yiiframework.com/</a> ) for people looking for a PHP framework. I've never used Symfony so can't compare the two, but Yii has done everything I've asked of it.