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copied!<p>After some research I've decided to go with Symfony. Here are my reasons:</p> <ul> <li>Less verbose than ZF</li> <li>Seems very customizable due to usage of YAML files (yet I never feel overwhelmed by them)</li> <li>Autoloading of custom classes doesn't require any extra work like in ZF (albeit it's not hard to set up in ZF)</li> <li>The developer toolbar is great, and they're adding some nice features to it in ver 1.3</li> <li>The ability to use pieces from other frameworks (ZF, eZComponents) makes me feel confident that I won't have trouble finding what I need</li> <li>Comes bundled with Doctrine and is very easy to set up (in fact Doctrine will become the default ORM in ver 1.3)</li> <li>It seems like there's a much larger community for Symfony. Google "symfony tutorials" versus "zend framework tutorials" and you'll see a massive difference in the number of results</li> <li>Plenty of documentation: tutorials (the Jobeet tutorial so far is very good), API references, and a more human readable description of the framework and its underlying principles <li>Yahoo! has used it for a few of their own projects - it's nice to see a Big Name back a framework IMHO</li> </ul> <p>Edit: For the sake of hopefully helping others in the same situation, here are some things I don't like about Symfony:</p> <ul> <li>Does not follow the PEAR naming scheme (ZF does) <li>Internal classes begin with "sf". This is contrary to the practice of capitalizing the first letter of the class name</li> <li>Variables and functions are written_like_this, yet class methods are camelCased - this seems sloppy to me</li> </ul> <p>These are all cosmetic issues though; things that bother me because I like to do things <em>my</em> way. I realize that whenever you use third party software you must be willing to make some sacrifices. </p> <p>ZF is certainly a nice framework, but I feel using Symfony as the primary framework and extending it with pieces of ZF is the best choice for me and my team.</p> <p><b>Edit</b></p> <p>It's been 2 years since originally posting this, and since it's still getting hits I thought I'd give a quick update. I probably built about 25 - 30 projects using symfony 1.x in the last 2 years, and I'm very happy with how it performed. As a full stack MVC framework, partnered with Doctrine, it handled almost everything I threw at it. And whatever it couldn't handle, it was easy to add my own custom code. In fact, that's what I love most about symfony - how easy it is to extend. I ended up building a bunch of plugins and Doctrine behaviors that greatly reduced development time. And the admin generator tools have been a god-send. I'm still using symfony 1.4 for a few projects here and there, but have decided to mainly focus now on using Symfony2. It's a completely different beast than symfony 1, but I really appreciate its architecture. More importantly, it seems even easier to extend than symfony 1.x. I do miss some of 1.x's features, but that's the sacrafice you have to make when switching frameworks.</p>

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