PHP Framework: Symfony vs. Laravel
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 reus...
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 |
|
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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