Davinder Mahal, 04 August 2009

I’ve looked at several frameworks and a few years ago choose symfony. It is a brilliant framework and it’s amazing how fast you can build and deploy an enterprise level site.

I don’t mean to offend anyone when I say this, but those who question any framework’s speed and performance, especially when comparing between Hello World! applications between frameworks themselves, or by writing a single script are in a nuts or in a different league.

php frameworks are for those building real web applications – fully featured applications that run online – and are not to be used primarily by someone who just wants to have a few dynamic variables or a few lightweight database calls. The true difference is, are you building a simple web site or an application?

As for other examples of enterprise-level high-performing sites, please do not forget that Delicious is built based on the symfony framework that serves millions of users.