# Symfony Reviews **Vendor:** SensioLabs **Category:** [PHP Web Frameworks](https://www.g2.com/categories/php-web-frameworks) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 29 ## About Symfony Symfony is a set of PHP Components, a Web Application framework, a Philosophy, and a Community — all working together in harmony. ## Symfony Reviews ### 1. Solid MVC and Bundles, but Boot-Up and Routing/View Wiring Need Work **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ayush Raj S. | Full Stack Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Symfony?** The MVC architecture and bundle design feel well thought out and complete, which makes the project straightforward and easy to work with. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** The boot-up time, and the way routes and views are wired together. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides an enterprise-level application that’s ready to use, and it also has a vast community. ### 2. A simple way to create an application in php **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simón B. | AWS Cloud Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Symfony?** It's intuitive command line to generates code, entity classes and controller classes. The easy way to integrate with multiple APIs and multiple frontend languages **What do you dislike about Symfony?** It would by nice to have something like pyspark over symfony **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Symfony helps me to create quick websites and integrate third party APIs very easy ### 3. Best PHP framework I've ever work with **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Blas C. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Symfony?** Easy to work with and very customizable. It uses very good patterns and encourage you to apply them. Very good documentation. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** It might be a bit heavy for some use cases. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Is helping create powerfull web applications and APIs very easily. It simplify a lot the application maintenance. ### 4. The Quintessential PHP Framework **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francis Owusu B. | Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Symfony?** In as much as Laravel gets most of the praise for being the face of PHP development, it is noteworthy how much it owes this to Symfony. Additionally, Symfony is very well documented and makes it easy to get into for PHP developers **What do you dislike about Symfony?** Recent PHP 8 support on the Symfony 6 hasn't been good. I have had to tear down and restart projects countless times because of PHP versioning. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work with Shopware daily, and it is built on Symfony and uses its numerous features to build e-commerce backends. ### 5. Php made easier with Symfony **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mounsif M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Symfony?** The Symfony developer experience is great, reasonably simple debugging process as well as going live **What do you dislike about Symfony?** Managing big projects with Symfony can get tricky at times **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating Apis and database querying is a lot simpler when using Symfony, making the code more readable and making collaboration on projects a smooth experience. ### 6. 1) Very helpful framework based on MVC 2) each and every thing is easy controllers models **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Usman A. | Senior Software Engineer Sugar/ Suite CRM Web Developer PHP, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Symfony?** I like its user interface. I have build Food management application in the symphony. I like its fast working. Symphony is good to build management type of systems. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** The thing I have disliked is its database management. Some times it becomes complex to handle large databases. There is not a proper way to handle create fields and tables from the Front end. **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** I would like to recommend Symphony to my friends and colleagues. This is a good framework to build management type applications. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am building the attendance management system through symphony. This framework is very helpful and abstract. The Documentation is very helpful. but for the third party apps this is not very useful and not have enough documentation. ### 7. Symfony is great **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark Kevin B. | Senior Web Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Symfony?** it is a components base. and very resuable on any other ever php library/framework **What do you dislike about Symfony?** i think documentation is not that great. i think that the documentation page needs some updates to make it more readable and easy to understand. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** A lot of problem. Its really helpfull because thers a lot of components/library in symfony that you dont need to reengineer from scratch by yourself ### 8. Symfony framework **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zahid B. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Symfony?** Its frontend view creation capability is too good. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** Its handling of MySQL database query structure is quite troublesome. **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** Use it, It's quite easy and rich with features that one can possibly need in a web development working enviornment. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making custom CRM for users to be using in sales and marketing. ### 9. Review for Symfony **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Davit K. | Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Symfony?** make a high load system, use API systems **What do you dislike about Symfony?** complex data structure, difficult to navigate files **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** if you are looking for an enterprise solution for your business, good ready-made solutions, I recommended Symfony **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Symfony is suitable for large projects,there are a lot of ready-made solutions ### 10. Symfony is very powerful tool for creating projects. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Symfony?** It is easy to use, a lot of build- in procedures ( like generating classes, migration, etc.) **What do you dislike about Symfony?** Moving from older version to last released version sometimes breaks overall process **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Symfony is great for websites and CLI applications. Main benefit for me is that it’s easy to install and start your project ### 11. Best PHP Framework **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Symfony?** It is a stable, flexible and reliable complete framework. It's open-source and has a rich community. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** ORM doctrine is not well documented. Version update is sometimes difficult. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building web application. It's faster, easier to manage and flexible. ### 12. It's ok. Very abstracted and flexible **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James H. | Senior Web Developer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Symfony?** That the documentation lets you specify version number, that you can fall back to plain old PHP, Mysql, HTML if you want to, that you can use as little or as many parts of the framework as you desire. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** There are so many ways to do things that the documentation and the support on third party QA sites answers old questions or alternative ways that may not be possible anymore. The third party bundles can get complicated to add to your app. It uses a lot of memory. **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** I would recommend looking at Laravel instead because it's basically a version of symfony that was simplified and updated with extra time saving features. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved the problem of not having a website. There has been zero benefits so far by using Symfony over other frameworks. Only disadvantages if development time. ### 13. The maximum of PHP Framework **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ariel B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Symfony?** It is very comprehensive and solid. Also, I suppose it is the only framework with a roadmap that is reliably punctual. The documentation can be very complete and I admire the possibility to download the manual for offline reading. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** Probably for a simple project, it is too heavy and requires excessive setup. I think it is difficult to scale in Symfony without a great IDE, as it pressures the developer to be very detailed. It lacks an administration interface, and its learning and mastery require a long curve. **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** If you want to develop your website professionally, you need the best PHP framework. Symfony is incredible with LTS versions, Symfony is the best framework. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since we move this same one to Symfony, allowing a lot of design patterns, for me it is the simplest option for my web tasks. The main advantage is that it is a stable base for my code, so I am quite confident in delivering an accurate and solid software program. ### 14. A great framwork for APIs and Websites. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Symfony?** The fact that symfony comes as a skeleton and you can add only the feature you need keeps the project size smaller and more secure. Their is also amazing documentation. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** Their is a learning curve if you have never used a framework like symfony. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use symfony to build out our rest based API and provide routing for our webserver. ### 15. Impressive frame **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alejandro V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Symfony?** Components, Java-type framework. Network of open and accurate sources, documentation, tons of user packages. Solutions for Rest API, Oauth, admin panels, user modules. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** It is difficult to learn for beginners. Some functions about engineering **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** Try it and you will love it, although the learning curve is a bit steep, you will like it. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it everywhere in the back-end. E-commerce and CRM solutions. Fast development, easy to maintain and scale. Framework does not harm application performance. ### 16. The best PHP framework that exists **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ludwring L. | Desarrollador Drupal, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Symfony?** One of the best tools to create applications with PHP based on the best industry standards **What do you dislike about Symfony?** Must improve its integration with javascript **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improvement in the quality, security and development time of web applications with PHP ### 17. Best fullstack PHP Framework **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vincent C. | Tech Lead / Architecte, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Symfony?** This framework is a set of components that allows to makes it a fullstack framework with a lot of best practices inspired from other successful languages. You can manage bundles (which are packages) in your application to decouple features and structure your code to be maintanable and clear. There is also a lot of bundles offered by the community that covers many functionalities so you can reuse a great set of libraries in your applications. Community is really active so the framework is evolving a lot everyday. The framework is really well tested with unit tests and you can add unit tests and functional tests (with Behat) in your project easily to have a high quality project. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** Dependencies can sometime be quite heavy when building the project and projects can depend a lot of external libraries. Hopefully, these libraries can be overrided in the framework. Also, it can be complex to manage some frontend tools (like Gulp, Bower, ...) to manage both Symfony assets and a frontend project assets. **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** This is the best PHP framework that exists actually and this framework can really heading in the right direction. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** I develop web applications for large business companies so there are business applications and also ecommerce websites with a lot of data. I also develop APIs to expose data in order to use them on frontend applications so Symfony is the backend application part. Indeed, Symfony has a really great model based on request processing that returns an HTTP response and also provides a great Security component that allows you to filter by IP adresses or use some other authentications methods: HTTP basic, JWT, accounts stored in database, etc... really easily. ### 18. Solid PHP Framework **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adil K. | Développeur web, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2017 **What do you like best about Symfony?** Architecture : The MVC architecture It provides stable, faster and flexible web applications development Console application with many commands and code generators Extendability : highly expandable the are a lot of bundles to install Community and resources : has a great community with lots of learning resource Security. The framework components are supported with timely upgrades and enhancement of security. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** Heavy Steep learning curve: although the good documentation for me Symfony is hard to understand and use it professionally in real world projects. So i don't recommand it for a simple web project **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have Symfony for Developing complexe Web application, to assure security and stability. ### 19. Most Flexible Foundation for Web Apps **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Symfony?** Each component can be used with or without other components **What do you dislike about Symfony?** It's hard to find anything to complain about **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our web apps all run on Symfony ### 20. PHP is dead, long life to Symfony! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Benjamin E. | Analyst Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Symfony?** Symfony is a very well written and decoupled framework. It make my code maintenable, reusable, fast and robust. I can get things done so quickly, it will be hard for me to switch language or tool in a short term. I build website, API, command line application, batch application with it and it's very nice! All the component of Symfony can be reuse in other PHP framework. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** The lurning curse is quite big at the beginning. But since I started, it's becoming easier to start and to improve. It's true a good IDE will help you a LOT (Phpstorm) with the auto completion for example. It uses PHP... which need more feature! But PHP7 is nice ! **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** I built SportFinder with it (website, payment, API, business logic), Edebex (website, payment, business Logic) and BePark (website, payment, user management, API, business logic) ### 21. The most complete PHP Framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paolo F. | Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Specialist, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Symfony?** It's very complete and stable. Also, I think that it's the only framework with a roadmap that is punctually respected. The documentation is very complete and I appreciate the possibility to download the manual for offline reading. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** Probably for simple project it's too heavy and it needs excessive configuration. Probably it needs an approach nearest to "convention as configuration" like Django. I think that is difficult to develop in Symfony without a good IDE because it force the developer to be very verbose. It lacks an admin interface or a scaffolding mechanism. **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** If you want a good PHP framework with LTS releases, Symfony is thebest choice for you. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since the last year, for me it's the only choice for my web projects. The major benefit is that it's a solid foundation for my code, so I'm pretty confident to ship good and rock solid software. ### 22. A strong and robust PHP framework for web applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Symfony?** By far symfony is the most complete PHP framework you will find at this moment to build robust applications. First of all, it's free, you will find a lot of support for it on github and websites like stackoverflow, you will find great documentation for all the versions plus lot of examples and support. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** By default, symfony has a lot of dependencies, so if your project is of small or medium complexity you will have to spend a lot of time getting rid of all what you don't actually need. A con can be the learning curve, which can take up to a month, compared to other major PHP frameworks available. **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** The learning curve can be arround 1 month so be patient, you have to be a good PHP developer and desirable you have to have previous experience with similar frameworks. If not, begin with silex, the monolithic version of symfony. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Symfony in several web projects where PHP and scalability are a must. The performance and flexibility of this project allow it to be a great choice to build full websites, partial backend APIs for websites and mobile apps and even for console apps. ### 23. the most flexible and extendable php framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yasmany C. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Symfony?** Its modularity, from the architecture to it integration, symfony is base on a subset of plugins/bundles the are also based on a subset of libraries; integrated in a complete whole and flexible framework. Its one of the best representations of the SOLID principles that you can find out there. The fact that its is build on this way, allows all the components to be reused on other projects, like Drupal, eZ platform, composer and so on. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** The official documentation should be writes in other languages like Spanish **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** Simply the best PHP framework out there **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** E-Commerce platforms, CMSs, Social Networks, etc ### 24. awesome! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Symfony?** I'm a suspect to say about, I'm a big fan!! I like how the components are made, they are reusable, decoupled and robust. I have experience with Symfony Fullstack and it give me a big productivity because exists of a lot bundles to solved specifics problems and they usually are configurable. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** The first time with Symfony is a little painful, but I need to change my mindset and improve my knowledges about object orientation. After I understand the way and how to work on it, now when a develop a new project is like I was joking **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** Ok, Symfony fullstack not is a silver bullet, but it will help you to go where do you want, if is your first time with it, you may have some pain, but "no pain no gain". **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many problems I solved with it! Now, I working in project which is a platform to apply discount in cart, and we use symfony because it is robust framework and I have a big flexibility for use it. For example, we don't create a CRUD from scratch, just use a ResourceBundle from Sylius project. So, to take more flexibility and decoupoled code, we using the EventDispatcher and a lot of other examples. ### 25. Symfony - French touch **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Symfony?** First, when we talk about Symfony, we are actually talking about Symfony3. Symfony makes PHP development (less) painless, mainly by using MVC archtecture, Doctrine as an ORM and Twig for templating. Also it's one of the few PHP framework that actually work with PHP 5.3. Symfony as a large community and is used by many large (french) companies like Total, BlaBlaCar, Dailymotion or even the CMS Drupal. The framework is old, and because of that, it means the technology is rock solid, the first version of symfony was published in 2005, 11 years ago, **What do you dislike about Symfony?** The fact that Symfony is a PHP framework is already a problem. The framework itself is great, well made and with a lot of documentation. But, PHP is getting really old, and with new technologies showing up, like Node or ROR, PHP5 is a burden to Symfony. The next PHP7 is on it's way but it will take some time to be finishied and more importantly will take some time to be implemented in Symfony. As a system administrator, Symfony 'can' be really hard to deploy, when compared to frameworks like meteor for example. **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** Keep in mind that PHP is getting pretty old and that there is a lot of other technologies that might meet your requirement, like node.js or RubyOnRails **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** My company was trying to make a global community blog named inck. The project was a success but we are planning to switch it from Symfony to Meteor. We are using for example websocket that are really hard to implement with Symfony and work out of the box with Meteor. ### 26. Symfony complete Web framework with wrestling in mind **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michele C. | Sviluppatore web senior, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Symfony?** Symfony in his version number 2 is very oriented to components. Great documentation and growth with the TDD philosophy in mind. Anything is needed for modern web applications in php is ready to use in Symfony. **What do you dislike about Symfony?** Little things, for example that the writing of middleware is not encouraged the same way it happens in smallest frameworks. **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** It will require a small amount of time but give it a try cause it will educate you to a more advanced use of the language. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Growth large codebase fastly having the ability to find a large amount of skilled developers knowing the platform already. ### 27. Powerful, if difficult to learn at first **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Igor . | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Symfony?** Dependency injection, FOS User Bundle, Serializer **What do you dislike about Symfony?** Not much really. Some bundles lack documentation. **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** Symfony is good for medium to large projects. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building web apps ### 28. Awesome framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sergey Z. | Software Engineer, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Symfony?** Components, java-like framework. Open sourced, good community, documentation, tons of user bundles. Solutions for Rest API, Oauth, Admin panels, User modules **What do you dislike about Symfony?** It's hard to learn for newcomers. Some features over engineered **Recommendations to others considering Symfony:** Just try it and you're going to like it **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it everywhere on backend. Ecommerce and CRM solutions. Fast developing, easy to maintain and extend. Framework doesn't hurt application's performance ### 29. simple, straight **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Symfony?** well documented, open source, rich community **What do you dislike about Symfony?** don't have before action for controller. **What problems is Symfony solving and how is that benefiting you?** any kind of web backend/frontend solution, symfony make it quick and easy ## Symfony Discussions - [What is Symfony used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-symfony-used-for) - [What is the best way to integration with third party API's?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/37817-what-is-the-best-way-to-integration-with-third-party-api-s) - 1 upvote - [How do i add new plugins in it.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/37195-how-do-i-add-new-plugins-in-it) - 1 upvote - [What is the best way to include third party integrations?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/37110-what-is-the-best-way-to-include-third-party-integrations) - 1 upvote - [What is the best way to include third party integrations.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/37009-what-is-the-best-way-to-include-third-party-integrations) - 1 upvote - [View Symfony pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/symfony/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-09+04%3A52%3A44+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=fe7b4687-b732-4494-82e6-25f5a89c69ef&secure%5Btoken%5D=6d96294040605ecca8b4bb55f0ca15988cdf58225087a838fdf7fb8a3345ca0a&format=llm_user) ## Top Symfony Alternatives - [Angular](https://www.g2.com/products/angular/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (156 reviews) - [Laravel](https://www.g2.com/products/laravel/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (147 reviews) - [Laminas Project (formerly Zend Framework)](https://www.g2.com/products/laminas-project-formerly-zend-framework/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (33 reviews)