Switched to symfony
August 8th, 2007 @ 10:13 pm

T-15 days until thesis deadline.

So after struggling with Solar for so long, I decided to switch to a different framework. I evaluated Zend Framework, CodeIgniter, and symfony; which were all on my list in the beginning as well. I looked at others as well but didn’t seriously consider them. After looking at each, I decided to try symfony. I didn’t like the documentation for ZF and although I really like CodeIgniter, it is PHP4 compatible, which makes me sad :(

I thought symfony was over complicated and bloated, especially compared to CodeIgniter. But I figured if nothing else, I would get a lot done quickly and that’s what I need right now. So I’ve been working with symfony for about 2 days now, mostly reading documentation and trying out some stuff. I’ve gotten more done in 3 hours of coding with symfony than I had in 7 days using Solar. All I can say right now is . . . I think I’m in love . . .

php · school · solar · symfony

6 Comments

  1. joshdavey
    said,

    August 8, 2007 at 10:44 pm

    Ever consider trying madeam? http://www.madeam.com

    Here are some screencasts: http://madeam.com/screencasts/

  2. Javi
    said,

    August 9, 2007 at 2:40 am

    Congratulations for choosing the most professional and most complete PHP framework.

  3. rpsblog.com » A week of symfony #32 (6->12 August 2007)
    said,

    August 13, 2007 at 5:25 am

    [...] Switched to symfony [...]

  4. halfer
    said,

    August 20, 2007 at 10:40 am

    @johanna: I’ve not tried it, but I think Cake belongs in your list of ‘PHP frameworks to try’. That said, I am a committed symfony user, and am very happy with it.

    @joshdavey: I’d not heard of Madeam, but it does appear to be very alpha at this stage, so perhaps has some way to go. I think this was the case with Solar when I looked at the website some time ago, too. Probably best not to push it too hard at an early stage, else you’ll have a lot of people remembering that it’s not ready, even though it may well be very ready at some point in the future!

  5. joshdavey
    said,

    September 3, 2007 at 1:14 pm

    @Halfer: Yea you’re probably right. It’s always nice to have input on it though. Makes testing a lot faster.

  6. What’s cooking at Tech-Recipes » Blog Archive » Happy birthday symfony
    said,

    October 19, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    [...] search was quickly and richly rewarded. I found lots of glowing references for the symfony framework. Symfony is so much more than what I was looking for, but exactly what I [...]

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