Karl Katzke’s Blog: PHP: Symfony vs. Zend
On his blog, Karl Katzke has posted his own comparison of two of the popular PHP frameworks available for developers – Symfony and the Zend Framework.
The Symfony and Zend frameworks are so amazingly different that they almost don’t deserve to share the title “framework.” [...] Both frameworks are PHP5-native frameworks and won’t function in PHP4. Both are heavily object-oriented and make use of inheritance that’s only offered in PHP>5. Both use the front controller model. The similarities end there.
He compares them on a few levels:
- Getting Started
- Unit Testing
- Templating
- Plugins
- Database Modules
Be sure to check out his conclusion for his personal choice – we won’t spoil it here.