Symfony
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Symfony is a web application framework written in PHP which follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm. Released under the MIT license, Symfony is free software.
Symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure. It requires few prerequisites for installation; Unix or Microsoft Windows with a web server and PHP 5 installed. It is compatible with many relational database management systems, and has low performance overheads.[1]
Proponents of the framework claim that the learning curve required for its proficient use is reduced to less than a day. It is designed to allow developers to apply agile development principles (such as DRY, KISS or the Extreme Programming philosophy) and focus on applicative logic without needing to write the many XML configuration files expected of contemporary frameworks.
Symfony is aimed at building robust applications in an enterprise context, and aims to give developers full control over the configuration: from the directory structure to the foreign libraries, almost everything can be customized. To match enterprise development guidelines, Symfony is bundled with additional tools to help developers test, debug and document projects.
Symfony is sponsored by Sensio, a French Web Agency. The first name was Sensio Framework, and all classes were prefixed with sf. Later on when it was decided to launch it as Open Source Framework, the brainstorming resulted in the name Symfony, the name which depicts the theme and class name prefixes.[2] The theme behind the name Symfony is the combination of other PHP5 projects, so it is can also be said Symfony is the symphony of PHP 5 projects.
Symfony is used by the open-source Q&A service Askeet and many more applications, including the 20 million users Yahoo Bookmarks service.
