Absolutely :) Before I started using symfony I was using Spring and Hibernate in Matt Raible's AppFuse framework (Java) which was an amazing framework, but the development cycle was too damn long (compared with symfony). That's not a fault of AppFuse, it's just Java in general (code, compile, test). Also, I'm a mediocre Java developer at best.
I'd been using PHP4 for a number of years, and was a far better PHP developer than Java (hence all my Java psuedocode was actually PHP). The reason I stuck with AppFuse though was because I didn't believe there was a comparatively scalable PHP framework - until I was introduced to symfony (and PHP5). For me, symfony was the excuse I needed to ditch Java and transfer my Java knowledge to learning PHP5 - previous to that I hadn't yet looked at PHP5 because... well because I didn't think it was worth it as there wasn't a decent enough framework that used it. Coming from Java a lot of the new concepts in PHP5 were familiar, so it didn't take too long to get up to speed with it. symfony is now approaching something VERY similar to AppFuse - Doctrine is becoming more and more like Hibernate, YAML and PHPDoc make adding functionality via tags or configuration similar to how this can be achieved with XDoclet in AppFuse, symfony 1.3's Dependency Injection and loosely coupled components are very similar to the Spring approach.... but with less XML ;) I'm pretty excited about the components, it will mean I can still use the symfony components I'm familiar and comfortable with where perhaps the full symfony framework would be overkill. How's that for an answer? ;) On 3 Nov 2009, at 08:54, Sid Ferreira wrote: > lol, I know this topic sounds funny, but I'm asking this cause > thanks to symfony a lot of things changed in how I work. > Not only the coding standards, but even when making the first plans > of a project. > > For instance, after meeting YML, I've started to use this notation > when describing my projects, defining modules and actions, or > actions and links/fields inside of this. > > Once again I ask, looking for ways to refine my skills, am I the > only one doing this? > > Thanks in advance and sorry for bothering :-) > > -- > Sidney G B Ferreira > Desenvolvedor Web > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
