symfony: simplify professional web development with PHP

The interest of a framework is to automate the repetitive tasks of web development, and to provide a robust architecture for applications. Symfony uses best-of-breed components to do the task, integrates them tightly together, and polishes the whole with a consistent and natural syntax. Symfony is built from the experience, and relies on best practices of web development. Among all the design patterns it implements, the Model-View-Controller architecture is to basis of the framework; it allows both for a strong separation of content and presentation, and for a flexiblility that guarantee the applications’ future in terms of maintenance and evolutivity. Symfony is designed to adapt to the requirements of professional web applications: Multiple environments, internationalization, high configurability, good performance, database abstraction, all these features are part of the framework. Symfony is also the perfect tool for Rapid Application Development: It ships with a simple but very powerful testing framework (for unit and functional tests), a command line tool that bootstraps file structures and object models, a prototyping engine, application management tools. Lastly, all that’s necessary to build a robust web2.0 application (Ajax helpers, routing system, visual effects, and so on) are already built in. If it was only for the quality of its code and design, symfony would just be another framework. But its unique documentation and vibrant community make it the PHP framework for web appliactions today.