Why Symfony is the best choice for PHP web development?
Introduction Symfony is an open-source PHP web application framework for developers looking for a simple and elegant tool for building full-featured web applications. It works with an independent library and PHP Unit. Symfony is heavily influenced by the Ruby on Rails, Django, and Spring web application frameworks. Many open-source projects, including Composer, Drupal and phpBB, use its components. Choosing the right web development framework is one of the important steps to creating a web solution. PHP has developed rapidly and is now widely used for building simple and complex web applications. Today, 79% of all websites in the world are created using the PHP programming language. A web application can be built either in pure PHP or in one of its frameworks. Symfony has grown tremendously in recent years. The graph below shows that more than 20% of enterprises use the Symfony web framework for PHP web applications.
What is Symfony Framework? Generally speaking, the Symfony framework is a flexible framework that removes cumbersome coding, thus saving development time. Symfony's philosophy is to help create software that simplifies the entire product development process for developers. Symfony has all the features expected of a modern framework. This blog lists some of the features that make Symfony framework one of the best PHP frameworks. Symfony is a feature-rich back-end framework used to build complex applications. Many developers still prefer the lightweight Silex microframework or the Symfony MicroKernel, and Symfony is a widely used application framework among open source developers.
Why Symfony? : 5 reasons to choose a framework for PHP development
1. High flexibility Symfony PHP framework is a well-organized, feature-rich PHP framework whose architecture paves the way for developers to build sustainable web applications in the easiest possible way, further enhancing the user experience. This PHP framework is incredible because of its two most prominent technological advantages: Bundles and Components. A bundle is similar to a plugin. The primary advantage of packages is that they are decoupled, meaning they can be reused and further reconfigured for many applications to reduce overall development costs. Components help reduce routine tasks because they can be used independently by adding custom modules without breaking the architecture. A total of 30 useful Symfony components make the web development process easier. Symfony framework components can also be used exclusively in other frameworks (e.g. Laravel) or simple PHP solutions.
2. Customization The Symfony framework is packed with exclusive custom features and features for developers and enterprises. With Symfony as your PHP framework, you can make your web application as user-friendly as you want. Symfony's advanced OOPS service architecture allows projects to scale.
Symfony offers the following types of customization: ● ●
Full-stack – Build a complex product with many features Brick by brick – If you want to build an app with specific features and selective features, you can build your own framework.
3. Refined MVC architecture The MVC architecture of the Symfony framework is ideal for systematic and scalable web development projects. The Symfony framework uses MVC as the core of its web development and ensures that the project has an organized file structure distributed into Model, View and Controller. ● Model – focuses on the business logic of the web application. ● View – Provides a specific model on a web page visible to the user. ● Controller – based on user actions prompts for model or view changes if necessary. The real benefit of using MVC with Symfony is that developers are given the freedom to easily separate the Model (business logic) and the View (user presentation), allowing for better maintainability.
4. Large community This is one of the critical aspects that define a framework to survive and be good. Symfony's official website claims more than 3,000 contributors with a passionate group of more than 600,000 developers from more than 120 countries – a number several times larger than other PHP framework communities. Additionally, as of this writing, the Symfony framework has 20,758 stars and 1,304 followers, and has been forked 6,901 times on Github.
5. Stable and sustainable Fortunately, Symfony is one of the few commercially supported frameworks. Developed and sponsored by SensioLabs, it offers 3 years of support for all major versions. In addition, the company also provides lifetime support for security-related issues and offers official training programs and certifications. The company's website helps you find upcoming conferences held around the world. It is thus possible to infer the extent and seriousness of their intentions and beliefs.
Symfony Framework Examples Some popular sites that are built using the Symfony PHP framework: 1. Spotify Spotify works with Symfony to manage its users' accounts; according to statistics, the streaming platform had 286 million active users in 2020. Adopting open source software powered by PHP and Symfony helps businesses extend their solutions and provide new features. 2. Dailymotion Like Spotify, Dailymotion is a streaming service; it only offers access to videos instead of music. Dailymotion built their website in PHP and after a few years decided to abandon the framework they created in favor of Symfony. 3. Trivago Trivago owns another Symfony-based booking app that serves millions of users and allows them to compare hotel accommodation prices. By creating many features on the page, Symfony allows Internet users to have the best possible user experience when searching and comparing offers. 4. Drupal console Drupal Console is a component based on Symfony Console used for debugging and creating event lists. An event dispatcher can provide access to all application events thanks to a dependency injection container.
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