We have been building Givvy using PHP. Early on we decided to try to use a development framework to be more productive. The most popular Web 2.0 development frameworks is Ruby on Rails. Rails is the framework that works with the Ruby programming language. Ruby is fine, but our team knows PHP and didn’t want to learn a new language. Also, there seems to be a persistent string of comments about scalability issues with Rails…
So, we decided to look at different PHP frameworks before finally settling on Symfony. The reasons we picked Symfony over the other frameworks are not important - several of these could have done the trick. The most important bit of info here is that our team feels that using Symfony has sped up the development process by as much as 300%. By no longer having to write a bunch of low-level code to handle basic tasks, the guys can work on functionality and logic. 3x the speed - and it’s free!
Filed under: Development | Tagged: Development, PHP, Symfony
