Developing with Symfony

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Vincent on June 30th, at 6:56 pm •

I chose the Zend Framework for the same reason
What I do dislike about the Zend Framework, however, is the amount of documentation available: almost nothing. And the official documentation is off line most of the time.
Bas on June 30th, at 7:14 pm •

I never tried the Zend Framework, but I believe it has no generators. A framework does not need any, but I noticed that the more popular frameworks do implement them. Ruby on Rails does that, for example.

I actually think Symfony was created as the PHP equivalent of RoR… but who knows.
Jeff Chan on June 30th, at 8:12 pm •

In my opinion, Symfony and Zend Framework both are overkill. I really like the MVC design pattern employed.

I suggest you check out CakePHP, which is also modeled after RUby on Rails. Symfony on the other end has too much stuff you’ll never need. I think CakePHP is just right. It also has everything you mentioned Symfony has.
Vincent on July 2nd, at 12:01 pm •

ZF has today released v.1.0.0
If I were to look for alternatives for ZF CakePHP would have been the first framework I’d look at (well, basically because I’ve already looked at Symfony).

Though, if you consider ZF overkill - that should be no problem, as it is written very modular so you should be able to use most components separately.
Bas on July 2nd, at 12:11 pm •

Though, if you consider ZF overkill - that should be no problem, as it is written very modular so you should be able to use most components separately.

That’s the case with most frameworks, you take the bits and pieces you need and the rest is discarded in the production version.

Of course, this process might be more complex for each different framework.
Vincent on July 3rd, at 10:32 pm •

I coincidentally stumbled upon CodeIgniter, which looks very interesting (especially the performance bit if only it would be taking advantage of the new features in PHP 5.
SolidRaven on July 24th, at 4:31 pm •

I personally don’t think its positive if something is modeled after ruby on rails. Zend Framework would be my favorite, the only issue is the documentation and the requirement for mod_rewrite.