PHP Framework Symphony
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Wednesday 29 April 2009 00:37

Some job requires PHP Framework Symphony skills, so
I might check that out. But it always amazes me how
immature the PHP community is. At a Glance, there
are 3 different stable versions of the framework,
and their definition of stable is that it's
supported for only 1 year. Looks like the Symphony
framework is some hobby project from someone
planning to move on to Ruby, Python or a proper job
in three years? Why would anyone choose to use a
framework that fails to provide medium to long term
commitment to investments in a serious codebase? Or
do they know those rapid PHP prototypes usually get
rewritten in Ruby or Python well within those three
years, or is PHP itself not really stable enough to
build frameworks on that have a reasonable time to
live?

It's symfony, not symphony, by the way. I'm feeling
skilled already...

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/work/2009/04/29/php-framework-symphony/