I’ve been working with the symfony PHP framework today and am feeling excited about it so far. I went in search of some confirmation for my enthusiasm and found this blog post.
Symfony refactor of the Zend Quick Start Tutorial
My friends & colleagues have used Zend Framework (ZF) for a while, and I do my best to avoid it and use the Symfony PHP framework. Initially I was open to learning ZF, I was just curious why people liked it. The more questions I asked, the more I realized there were no good answers other than standards for standards sake, and variations on the Sunk Cost Fallacy.
I built a site using ZF some time ago and felt guilty about how little I enjoyed it. Symfony is not as simple as CodeIgniter or even Cake. But it doesn’t feel clever for the sake of being clever. The focus on getting things done and doing them properly is pretty tight. I may never get some of the people I work with to buy into this but I can live with that. There will be plenty of opportunities for me to build some skills with this toolset.
Tags: coding, libraries, PHP, software, web development
