Symfony is the most popular PHP framework for a reason. It provides tremendous benefits to programmers, administrators, project managers and clients. Let’s take a look at the 10 major benefits of using Symfony!

1. 10reasonswhySymfony
isjusttherightfitforyour
project

2. Let’stakealookatthe
10majorbenefits
ofusingSymfony!
SymfonyisthemostpopularPHPframeworkforareason!Itprovides
tremendousbenefitstoprogrammers,administrators,projectmanagersand
clients.

3. Youcanfocusonwhatma ersmost1
Asafullstackframework,Symfonyprovidessolu onstomostofthetypicalprogramming
problems.
Symfonyfunc onalies
·brewingcoffee·rou ng
·formsupport
·authoriza on
·transla ons
andmanyothers

4. You’reboundtoloveitifyouare…aLEGOfan
Youdon’tneedalloftheSymfonycomponents?Youonlywishtousethemasa
basetobuildyourownframework?
Noproblem!Symfonyhasover30independentcomponents.Theycanbe
removedorreplacedwithotherstobestsuityourneeds.
JustlikeLEGO,yougetonesetofbricksandendlesspossibilies!
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5. Symfonycomponents
ASSETBROWSERKITCLASSLOADERCONFIGCONSOLE
HTTPFOUNDATIONDOMCRAWLEREVENTDISPATCHEREXPRESSIONLANGUAGE
FILESYSTEMDEPENDENCYINJECTIONHTTPKERNELLDAPOPTIONSRESOLVER
PHPUNITBRIDGEPROCESSPROPERTYACCESS SECURITYSERIALIZER
DEBUGSTOPWATCH TEMPLATINGTRANSLATIONSVARDUMPERYAML
FINDERROUTINGINTLCSSSELECTOR

6. It‘sstableasarock
Haveyoueverneededtorewriteyourappjustbecauseaframeworkupdate
arrived?
That’sallinthepastnow!
Symfony’sstabledevelopmentanditsBackwardcompabilitypromise(thatis,
toretainbackwardcompabilityineachshort-termversion)makesupdanga
breeze.What’smore,eachshort-termversionreceivessupportforeightmonths
-morethanenoughtomakeanupdate.
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7. Symfonyversions2.3,
2.7,2.8and3.4areso
calledlong-term
support(LTS)releases
thataresupportedfor
anextendedperiodof
me.
Didyou
knowthat...?

8. Serveradministratorsmayfallinlovewithyou*
Implementaonhasneverbeenthiseasy!
ProgramssuchasCapifonyorscriptsfortoolssuchasAnsibleorPuppetwill
makedeploymentanenjoyableexperience.
*Wecannotguaranteethattheyreallywillfallforyou.Buttheywillsurelyquitmu ering
whenpassingyouinthehallway.
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9. #WithSymfonyInstallerstarngnew
projectisaseasyaspossible:
$symfonynewmy_project

10. Symfony’sdocumenta onistherealdeal
Wonderfuldocumenta onisoneofthebigreasonsbehindSymfony’ssuccess!
Cleardescrip ons,usage examples,tutorials-allspoton and including
informaononversionsupport.
WhatmakestheSymfonydocumenta onstandoutisitsopensourcestatus.
Asaresult,everyonecanhelpexpandit-bywringnewcontentorimproving
exisngones.What’smore,eachnewfunconalityneedstobedescribedinthe
documentaon(bestbyitscreator)inordertobeintroduced.
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11. 5
11
2000+
7000000
dollarsSensioLabsreceivedtocon nue
Symfony'secosystemdevelopment
peoplethathelpeddevelopiteversince
yearssincethereleaseofitsfirstversion
minutestoinstallSymfony
Symfonyinnumbers

12. Well-testedonhumans*
Can300,000programmers(accordingtoSymfony.com)bepossiblywrong?
Notonlyisthenumberimpressive,butit’sakintoapromisethattheprojectis
well-testedand(praccally)flawless.
*Nohumanswereharmedduringthetests(wecan’tsaythesameaboutprojectmanagers).
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13. ProjectsthatuseSymfony:

14. Gotaproblem?Symfonyistheretohelp!
Symfony’sdebuggingtoolsareoneofitsgreatestassets.
ThededicatedWebDebugToolbarprovidesprogrammerswithallthenecessary
informaon-scriptexecu on me,listofallqueriesetc.
Symfonysimplifiestesngaswell-built-in integraonwith thepopular
PHPUnittoolandtheinclusionofafunconaltesngtool(WebTestCase)make
tesngfarmoreenjoyable.
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15. Numberoferrorsvscustomersa sfacon
numberoferrors customersasfacon

16. Securityaboveall
RegardlessofwhetheryouareworkingonaneCommercepla ormoronanapp
thatstoresfunnycatpics-securityisessen al.
That’swhySymfonyhasbuilt-inproteconfromthemostcommonerrors,such
asXSSorCSRF.
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17. Symfonyusesthebuilt-inTWIGtemplateengine
FASTSECURE EXTENDABLE
alltemplates
arecompiledtoPHP
hasnaveproteconfromXSS
anditscodecanbeexecuted
in“sandboxmode”
allowsyoutocreateyourown
filtersandtagstodecreasethe
numberoferrorsinthecode
Didyouknowthat…?

18. ThebeautyoftheSymfonyecosystem
It’snotallabouttheframework.Extensionsand
integraonswith popularlibraries play an
importantroleaswell.Andit’syetanotherarea
whereSymfonyshines.
Knpbundles.com hasover3000 extensions
thatrangefrom menulibrariestoFacebook
integraons.
Youcanfindmanyfree(aswell
aspaid)SymfonyandPHP
tutorialsatknpuniversity.com.
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19. Itwillmakeyouforgetaboutalltheotherframeworks!
Justtryitandexperienceitfirsthand.Itdoesn’t
costathingasSymfonyisfullyopensource!
You’llbesurprisedjusthow convenientitisand
howmuchitoffers.
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