Thank you for sharing your thought here. Symfony is good, but it kills a lot of memory than codeigniter. When the site become hit, server will become heavily loaded.

1 year ago, I looked all the ones in the article AND in the comments/replies.

Yii put me off with the extensive OOP architecture.

Code Igniter didn’t seem complete.

Zend Framwork is arguably the most powerful, but hardest to develop in. Lots of control though

I eventually settled on Symfony. The learning curve STILL stretches out in front of me. It is not documented in the way that I would like it to be. Something like PHP website, Postgres, Linux, MySQL websites or Oracle manuals. (Oracle has gotten better, but it still talks in ‘Oracle Speak’)

Essentially, a programmer has to dig into the code to see how it works; Using it as a black box only works so far – It’s got some logic to anything but simple forms that totally escapes me and makes multitable forms a PITA.

OTOH, I still like symfony and am glad that I chose it. I like the integration with a debugger, the directory structure, the multiple layers of base objects for project wide and module wide usage.

I think the routing

@fw newbie, you asked for a comparison between CI, ZF & Drupal. While, CI & ZF are development frameworks, Drupal is a CMS. With CI / ZF you can build robust apps, but you have to do it from scratch. Whereas, with Drupal, you can launch a site quickly and keep adding functionalities to it. There is nothing in Drupal to build from scratch. Its a ‘ready-made’ website. You have to look at the scenario of your application and choose among these accordingly.

Gr8 work Sajith!

Have you tried it ?

I am looking for a nice MVC framework . I was looking Zend for a while . But thinks symfony has much more functionalities in command line .

Have you worked with Zend ?

Any suggestion ?
Anyway Thanks for the article.