For a new PHP project which framework should I choose Zend or Symfony?

Question

I mostly come from Java background as have no up to date info on best practices regarding PHP, so please advise.

We are about to start a PHP project for an application (no portal). The framework needs to be stable (no changing API between releases), need to scale well, support clustering maybe and obviously need to facilitate common programming tasks like attachment, user management, JS framework etc.

I googled and most people like either Zend (stability) or Symfony (for beeing latest and greatest (?))

So which one should we go with?

thanks Eliott

Answer 1

This is totally up to you and your company. Evaluate what features suit your project needs best and get started. Both frameworks are reasonably stable and have a large backing community. Zend however did become some kind of "industry standard".

Answer 2

the answer is Symfony, it's pretty similar with java. doctrine is the shadow of hibernate which is bundled in symfony 2.0 as ORM. it has all those features you are looking for :)

Answer 3

I suggest Symfony. Only one reason: you can integrate Zend into Syfmony easily. Please refer to http://www.symfony-project.org/jobeet/1_4/Doctrine/en/17
I don't think that you could integrate Symfony into Zend easily.
If you choose Symfony, you could take advantages of Zend. But not vice verse