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Abdul Wahid
Three years ago I was coding in simple PHP and never heard of any frameworks then after one year I started using frameworks in javascript i.e prototype etc. Soon I realize working in framework makes your life easier, your code is organized, standardized and most importantly your development is fast. It does not matter what framework you want to chose the basic aim of any framework is rapid development. Mostly client is concerned with how quickly you can provide the product, you code simple or use framework is the least concern. An efficient software always has the least code, and framework always tries to facilitate developer to code as little as possible. Currently there are 40 frameworks available for PHP and this shows the success and importance of frameworks.
Our team has worked on various frameworks i.e cakePHP, symfony etc and found out that symfony is little efficient than others. Symfony also has an edge over its documentation plus its community is much better than others.
Some people criticize symfony on the basis that why should they learn a new language i.e yml or propel etc but we think one can learn yml in no time and propel provides you optimized sql queries and database abstraction layer. The database abstraction will provide you the opportunity to shift to any DBMS anytime by just making some configuration changes. This feature will help you when you do not know the DBMS of a client project or the client is not sure about the DBMS, you can choose any DBMS and can shift to any DBMS.
Symfony is so flexible that you can bypass the whole symfony processing and can send the pages direct to server. You can customize it according to your needs to have an optimized solution. Its overhead is so minor that it can be ignored.Its powerful cache feature improves the efficiency of the project. Its debug tool bar or dev mode which will provide you lots of information about the page e.g: sql queries,request, response, page load time etc … and when you want to deploy to the production and get rid of debug statements than just a little configuration change is needed.
In organization where you have multiple developers working on same project, you need to follow a certain standard so that everyone is able to understand others developers code. If you are following a standard than it is very convenient for new employees to adjust and also replacement of leaving employee can be very quick. Therefore we have decided to set symfony as our standard framework.
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