[kayoone]

Ive been working with the Symfony PHP Framework since 2007 and to me it has transformed PHP completely. Many people left PHP when Rails came along and never looked at it again, and the biggest misconception is that many of those still look at PHP like it was in 2005/2006. But alot has happened!

Symfony2, my framework of choice, has a very mature and solid architecture and offers anything you could imagine from other frameworks. The code is clean and maintainable if done right and still its extremely flexible and extensible. It also depends on PHP 5.3 which has Namespaces, closures, lambdas etc. So id argue its up there with any of the other top Frameworks, it might even be the best. While its true that there are languages that are more beautiful to work in, i dont think its all that bad. For me, the biggest flaws of PHP are present in any dynamic-typing language. The syntax is just stuff to get used to once and be done with it.

[thejosh]

symfony2 is a beautiful framework.

I have been using symfony1 since january 1st, 2008 and then migrated across to 2 for other projects.

symfony2 is a solid framework for php, and very quick to get started and maintain. With composer it is even easier, and git repositories are pretty small as well.