Laravel PHP Framework vs. Symfony

Laravel PHP Framework

100 Reviews and Ratings

Symfony

28 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Laravel PHP Framework	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Laravel is a free, open source web application PHP framework.	N/A
Symfony	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Symfony is a PHP framework from French company SensioLabs.	N/A

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Laravel PHP Framework

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Laravel PHP Framework	Symfony
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	Laravel PHP Framework	Symfony
Considered Both Products	Open Source Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies in Research & Development at Top Floor Technologies (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Laravel PHP Framework Originally, it was a decision between Zend, CodeIgniter, and CakePHP for me. I chose CakePHP and used it as my main PHP framework for at least a couple of years before noticing and giving Laravel a fair try. Ultimately I selected Laravel because I felt it fit with my preferred … Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Chaudhary Software Engineer in Information Technology at Capital One (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Laravel PHP Framework Laravel is built on top of Symfony so is naturally a better upgrade. It is far superior than cake and igniter (in my opinion). I don't remember, but somewhere in internet someone made a comparison with Laravel and others as racing motor-bike vs a cycle. Because of large … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Laravel PHP Framework The best comparison I can make is against Symfony. It's curious that Laravel is built on top of Symfony. They chose the packages that they found to be useful. Symfony for instance comes with way too much stuff that in the end you never use, and Laravel just comes with the right … Incentivized Helpful? Jim Rubenstein Chief Technology Officer in Engineering at LoudDoor, LLC (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Laravel PHP Framework In my experience, if a development team is using an MVC framework that's not Laravel, they're doing one of two things: 1. Using an older framework like Code Igniter, CakePHP, or one of the many dozen others Incentivized Helpful? Peter Adams Owner/CTO in Information Technology at Ping! Development (Import and Export, 1-10 employees) Chose Laravel PHP Framework I inherited Laravel projects originally created by other developers. I haven't migrated clients at this time, however as the project gets bigger and I need to find more elaborate workarounds to address needs that option will be put on the table. Incentivized Helpful?	SensioLabs Verified User Chose Symfony I would say Laravel is by far Symfony's greatest rival. Laravel was actually a PHP framework that appears from Symfony, using only the packages that it really required. After some years, both projects have grown apart significantly, but you can still see Laravel using some of … Incentivized Helpful? James Hilton Director Of Development in Engineering at LabRoots (Publishing, 11-50 employees) Chose Symfony Symfony was chosen by previous developers, presumably for its flexibility and community support at a time when it was one of the best. Incentivized Helpful? Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies in Research & Development at Top Floor Technologies (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Symfony Symfony has become such a standard that many frameworks which previously may have been seen as competition, are actually adopting Symfony components to allow them to focus more on what makes their solution unique. Drupal 8 has replaced much of its low-level internal code with … Incentivized Helpful? Zee Gimon Digital Operations Manager in Marketing at The App Solutions (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Symfony We've compared Symfony to Laravel, Zend, Drupal, and Silex (as well as to pure PHP) and it was so far the most convenient tool for enterprise scalable products. Among all compared, Laravel was next in line in terms of the convenience and ease. Drupal used to be popular, but now … Incentivized Helpful? Yasmany Cubela Medina Scrum Master And Development Team Lead in Information Technology at PrimosHome (Commercial Real Estate, 11-50 employees) Chose Symfony Symfony is strengthened by its amazing set of components. It is more flexible and strong, now with the introduction of flex on Symfony 4.x it's even more flexible and adapting for the future. Its architecture is robust and allows developers to focus on products. Symfony has … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Laravel PHP Framework	Symfony
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (17 ratings)	8.0 (6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (2 ratings)