Wednesday, 21 March 2007

Symfony Takes Over Zend Framework

David Rasch in a post over the blog says that he has adopted Symfony instead of Zend Framework in a project. He speaks in favour of Symfony as he was able to recreate all the work with the Zend Framework over several months in a matter of four hours.

He lists some demerits of Zend Framework, which are as follows:

• Too piecemeal
• Incomplete: he says, arguably this is represented by the version number; but this applied to both individual components being incomplete and the lack of a complete offering for a whole application
• In flux: he found out that changing each time they updated such that it was difficult to get the newer components without breaking lots of our code
• Too rigid - he found it far too rigid and requiring much code diving, without much direction, to redirect some of the logic especially in the Controller framework