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James H.

Senior Web Developer

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/21/2016

"It's ok. Very abstracted and flexible"

3/5

What do you like best about Symfony?

That the documentation lets you specify version number, that you can fall back to plain old PHP, Mysql, HTML if you want to, that you can use as little or as many parts of the framework as you desire. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

There are so many ways to do things that the documentation and the support on third party QA sites answers old questions or alternative ways that may not be possible anymore. The third party bundles can get complicated to add to your app. It uses a lot of memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Symfony:

I would recommend looking at Laravel instead because it's basically a version of symfony that was simplified and updated with extra time saving features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?

We solved the problem of not having a website. There has been zero benefits so far by using Symfony over other frameworks. Only disadvantages if development time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ariel B.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/14/2018

"The maximum of PHP Framework"

4/5

What do you like best about Symfony?

It is very comprehensive and solid. Also, I suppose it is the only framework with a roadmap that is reliably punctual. The documentation can be very complete and I admire the possibility to download the manual for offline reading. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

Probably for a simple project, it is too heavy and requires excessive setup. I think it is difficult to scale in Symfony without a great IDE, as it pressures the developer to be very detailed. It lacks an administration interface, and its learning and mastery require a long curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Symfony:

If you want to develop your website professionally, you need the best PHP framework. Symfony is incredible with LTS versions, Symfony is the best framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since we move this same one to Symfony, allowing a lot of design patterns, for me it is the simplest option for my web tasks. The main advantage is that it is a stable base for my code, so I am quite confident in delivering an accurate and solid software program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/1/2019

"A great framwork for APIs and Websites. "

5/5

What do you like best about Symfony?

The fact that symfony comes as a skeleton and you can add only the feature you need keeps the project size smaller and more secure. Their is also amazing documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

Their is a learning curve if you have never used a framework like symfony. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alejandro V.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/13/2018

"Impressive frame"

4/5

What do you like best about Symfony?

Components, Java-type framework. Network of open and accurate sources, documentation, tons of user packages. Solutions for Rest API, Oauth, admin panels, user modules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

It is difficult to learn for beginners. Some functions about engineering Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Symfony:

Try it and you will love it, although the learning curve is a bit steep, you will like it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using it everywhere in the back-end. E-commerce and CRM solutions. Fast development, easy to maintain and scale. Framework does not harm application performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ludwring L.

Desarrollador Drupal

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"The best PHP framework that exists"

5/5

What do you like best about Symfony?

One of the best tools to create applications with PHP based on the best industry standards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

Must improve its integration with javascript Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vincent C.

Tech Lead / Architecte

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/21/2016

"Best fullstack PHP Framework"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Symfony?

This framework is a set of components that allows to makes it a fullstack framework with a lot of best practices inspired from other successful languages.

You can manage bundles (which are packages) in your application to decouple features and structure your code to be maintanable and clear.

There is also a lot of bundles offered by the community that covers many functionalities so you can reuse a great set of libraries in your applications. Community is really active so the framework is evolving a lot everyday.

The framework is really well tested with unit tests and you can add unit tests and functional tests (with Behat) in your project easily to have a high quality project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

Dependencies can sometime be quite heavy when building the project and projects can depend a lot of external libraries. Hopefully, these libraries can be overrided in the framework.

Also, it can be complex to manage some frontend tools (like Gulp, Bower, ...) to manage both Symfony assets and a frontend project assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Symfony:

This is the best PHP framework that exists actually and this framework can really heading in the right direction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?

I develop web applications for large business companies so there are business applications and also ecommerce websites with a lot of data.

I also develop APIs to expose data in order to use them on frontend applications so Symfony is the backend application part. Indeed, Symfony has a really great model based on request processing that returns an HTTP response and also provides a great Security component that allows you to filter by IP adresses or use some other authentications methods: HTTP basic, JWT, accounts stored in database, etc... really easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adil K.

Développeur web

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/13/2017

"Solid PHP Framework"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Symfony?

Architecture :

The MVC architecture

It provides stable, faster and flexible web applications development

Console application with many commands and code generators

Extendability :

highly expandable the are a lot of bundles to install

Community and resources :

has a great community with lots of learning resource

Security.

The framework components are supported with timely upgrades and enhancement of security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

Heavy

Steep learning curve: although the good documentation for me Symfony is hard to understand and use it professionally in real world projects.

So i don't recommand it for a simple web project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/30/2018

"Most Flexible Foundation for Web Apps"

5/5

What do you like best about Symfony?

Each component can be used with or without other components Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

It's hard to find anything to complain about Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Benjamin E.

Analyst Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/4/2017

"PHP is dead, long life to Symfony!"

5/5

What do you like best about Symfony?

Symfony is a very well written and decoupled framework. It make my code maintenable, reusable, fast and robust. I can get things done so quickly, it will be hard for me to switch language or tool in a short term.

I build website, API, command line application, batch application with it and it's very nice! All the component of Symfony can be reuse in other PHP framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

The lurning curse is quite big at the beginning. But since I started, it's becoming easier to start and to improve. It's true a good IDE will help you a LOT (Phpstorm) with the auto completion for example.

It uses PHP... which need more feature! But PHP7 is nice ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paolo F.

Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Specialist

Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/29/2016

"The most complete PHP Framework"

5/5

What do you like best about Symfony?

It's very complete and stable. Also, I think that it's the only framework with a roadmap that is punctually respected.

The documentation is very complete and I appreciate the possibility to download the manual for offline reading. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

Probably for simple project it's too heavy and it needs excessive configuration.

Probably it needs an approach nearest to "convention as configuration" like Django.

I think that is difficult to develop in Symfony without a good IDE because it force the developer to be very verbose.

It lacks an admin interface or a scaffolding mechanism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Symfony:

If you want a good PHP framework with LTS releases, Symfony is thebest choice for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since the last year, for me it's the only choice for my web projects.

The major benefit is that it's a solid foundation for my code, so I'm pretty confident to ship good and rock solid software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.