Symfony is a powerful PHP framework that empowers developers to build scalable, high-performance web applications with reusable components, comprehensive documentation, and a strong community.

What is Symfony Symfony is a set of PHP Packages, a Web Application framework, a Philosophy, and a Community — all working together in harmony.

Symfony documentation includes articles, tutorials and books to learn about the Symfony PHP framework and its packages.

You can use Symfony features in any PHP application, not only in Symfony projects. Symfony publishes over 250 independent packages, so you can add only what you need to your applications.

Development and performance stats are calculated comparing Symfony 6.0 to Symfony 7.0. Highlighted features were introduced in different Symfony 6.x versions and show the differences between …

This is optional, but it gives you a helpful binary called symfony that provides all tools you need to develop and run your Symfony application locally. The symfony binary also provides a tool to check if …

Become a Symfony contributor Be an active part of the community and contribute ideas, code and bug fixes. Both experts and newcomers are welcome. Learn how to contribute

Symfony Packages are decoupled libraries for PHP applications. Battle-tested in hundreds of thousands of projects and downloaded billions of times, they're the foundation of the most important PHP projects.

This article describes the best practices for developing web applications with Symfony that fit the philosophy envisioned by the original Symfony creators. If you don't agree with some of these …

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