Best in class framework for PHP applications
December 04, 2025

Best in class framework for PHP applications

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Symfony

Symfony powers our main product which is a web application for conversion rate optimization. It powers both the frontend's API, the business logic and the tracking capabilities.

Its various bundles help offset the boilerplates like auth, rest api, security, etc., so we can focus on our business needs.

Symfony is serving us well and gives us a powerful foundation to serve our customers in the best way possible.

Pros

  • API
  • Security
  • Auth
  • Queues
  • Application architecture

Cons

  • More powerful ecosystem of apps (paid and free)
  • Doctrine (which is the goto ORM) needs more work
  • Queue manager UI
  • Deployment options
  • The product is basically free for us, but drives our product
  • Easiness to run - easy to onboard developers
  • Powerful support community
  • Bundles and plugins
It can be a little complex at the begining comapred to some other frameworks, but this gives very good structure and makes it bulletproof for scaling actually large applications.

The framework is built in a way that you can start simple and bring incremental improvements to make sure your app responds to traffic, demand, and growing usage.
Symfony is a very mature framework which gives you guardrails to make sure your app is stable and performant.

One of the best things is that it's very stable and doesn't introduce a lot of issues with every version, as well as makes it pretty easy to update even between major versions.

I think the API and configuration are much more flexible and use much fewer "hacks" than other frameworks do.

Do you think Symfony delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Symfony's feature set?

Yes

Did Symfony live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Symfony go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Symfony again?

Yes

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Building SAAS applications which involve a lot of business logic and integrations.

It can be built out as a rest api that communicates with a frontend framework, or it can be build as a monolith.
A hybrid approach also works very well.

Messenger (queues) helps offset work to background workers, making it easier to separate user interactions from business logic and automations.

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