Symfony PHP5 Framwork

[SeyelentEco]

Anyone use the Symfony PHP5 framework before? http://www.symfony-project.com/

It's come highly recommended from a friend, just curious if anyone else has used it. Also, on the same topic, has anyone used the CakePHP framework? I'd like to hear about it.

Thanks.

[sde]

i installed Cake PHP and i'm trying to get a handle on it. i'm not finding it or the documentation very intuitive and i would be even more lost if i hadn't spent any time with ruby on rails.

i've only given it a few hours of my time so maybe i just need to dedicate doing a project with it to really understand it.

[SeyelentEco]

Definitely look into Symfony, I haven't used it but an ex-coworker whose coding abilities I respect looked into various frameworks over the course of a couple months and didn't have a lot of nice things to say about Cake

[DJMaze]

I've just downloaded Symfony and looked at the source.
IMHO it sucked in using the PHP5 capabilities so i've deleted it.

Working on a PHP 5 framework myself and didn't find usefull stuff in Symfony for it either.
When my Open Source project is ready for an alpha i will keep ya informed, but for now i think you're better of with a PHP 4 framework.

[SeyelentEco]

Thanks. I'll also check it out over the next couple days. Thanks for the info.