I'm highlighting some (hopefully) not-so-obvious reasons you'd consider using symfony in future

1. Using symfony to save
time, effort and sanity
Joshua May

2. Best of breed, cohesive
suite of tools

3. A blank canvas

4. Sponsored by Sensio
Labs

5. Single lead developer
Numerous core
contributers

6. In touch with
competing frameworks

7. Considered slow

8. Fast enough for Yahoo!
(answers, bookmarks, delicious.com)

9. Fast enough for
dailymotion.com
(42 million uniques in December 2008)

10. Symfony 2 is already
faster! (see: components)

11. Installation as an
external library
(PEAR, SVN, tarball)

12. One library, one to
many projects

13. Persistence

14. Doctrine or Propel

15. External projects, well
maintained

16. Doctrine is the future!

17. $user = new User();
$user->set(‘name’, ‘Joshua May’);
$user->save();

18. Environments

19. Configuration per
environment
production, development, test

20. config
------
all:
enquiry:
recipients:
- boss@example.com
- enquiries@example.com
dev:
enquiry:
recipients:
- notjosh@gmail.com
code
----
$recipients =
sfConfig::get(‘app_enquiry_recipients’);

21. Debug toolbar

24. Flexibility

25. Configuration for
almost everything
available

26. Forms

27. Object oriented

28. Form inheritance:
class FeedbackForm extends ContactForm
Easy CRUD:
class UserForm extends BaseDoctrineForm

29. Templatable
fine or high level control

30. Secure
sfForm applies CSRF tokens

31. Security

32. CSRF Protection

33. XSS Protection
Transparent output escaping via:
sfOutputEscaperArrayDecorator
sfOutputEscaperGetterDecorator
sfOutputEscaperIteratorDecorator
sfOutputEscaperObjectDecorator

34. Routing

35. symfony 1.2 is REST
compliant

36. Bind URLs to resources
sfDoctrineRoute
/users
/user/joshua

37. Respect request formats
/users.xml
/user/joshua.xml

38. Testing

39. lime
provides unit and functional testing
based on the Test::More Perl library, and is
TAP compliant

40. PHPUnit friendly

41. Documentation

42. Documentation before
release

43. Available for free

44. Hardcopy books
available

45. Taken seriously
No exercises left to user, it’s very verbose

46. Caching

47. Full page or partial

48. Easy CRUD
via “admin generator”

49. Understands relations

50. Deployment

51. rsync helpers

52. Doctrine migrations

53. Plugins

54. Hundreds available
antispam, user authentication, OpenID, blog, CMS, forum, PayPal, shopping carts, and
on and on and on.....

55. Vary in quality

56. Event driven
more flexible than concrete hooks

57. Community

58. IRC, mailing lists,
forums

59. Components

60. Standalone tools

61. Dependency Injection
Event dispatcher
YAML

62. Quality

63. Test coverage
symfony 1.2 has 9233 tests

64. Consistency

65. Projects look the same

66. Plugins follow form

67. That’s all!

68. @notjosh
notjosh@gmail.com