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PHP Framework: Symfony vs. Laravel

PHP Framework: Symfony vs. Laravel

Sat, 10 Apr 2021

PHP frameworks are very much popular in various web application developments. Laravel, Symfony, Codeigniter, Zend, and more are PHP frameworks.

Benefits of using PHP frameworks:

  • Faster development
  • Organized and reusable code
  • Scalability of web applications
  • Separation of presentation and
  • Relevant practices and tools

As part of this package, Laravel and Symfony are the two most popular frameworks employed across the board by organizations. They offer Web developers the necessary tools to help accelerate repetitive tasks.

Laravel was created using Symfony and gained a lot of traction and interest. Symfony is considered in the PHP community to be a defacto standard. Laravel helps develop Applications based on MVC.

Difference between Laravel and Symfony:

 

Laravel

Symfony

Performance & Scalability

Works Faster and Average loading time for websites is about 60 milliseconds Average loading time for a website is about 250 milliseconds

Database Access & Migration

Eloquent and Manual and doesn’t require defining the field in the model Doctrine, Automatic, but they need defining the field in the model

Templating Engine

Blade, PHP, Smarty, Twig

Twig, PHP

Database Support

SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Microsoft BI, MongoDB

Microsoft BI, MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MemcacheDB, GraphDB Membase, GemFire, Oracle, Apache Jackrabbit

Support PHP Only and no registration required

YAML, PHP, and XML and requires registration

 

Advantages of Symfony:

  • Multiple options for extensibility
  • Faster than most of the other PHP frameworks
  • Adaptability and optimal performance
  • Reusable components that reduce time and cost

Advantages of Laravel:

  • Advanced query builder mechanism.
  • Painless data migration and overall management
  • Auto-loading facility
  • Simpler authentication
  • Event object principle instead of event string for handling new events in applications