[TYPO3-ect] symfony

[David Toshack]

Elmar Hinz wrote:
>> Basically, I like the whole framework, but I like Rails anyway. The
>> difficulty really lies in judging how much we should integrate without
>> making TYPO3 a symphony app...
> 
> Well, if the licenses would match and if technologies match, I wouldn't have
> problems with TYPO3 basing on a modern framework. TYPO3 itself is more than a
> framework. It is also a set of implementations, a community of developers, etc.
> 
> But it is unlikely that technologies of another basic framework will match in a
> way that we could shift TYPO3 upon it. So we need to modernize the base of TYPO3
> itself.
> 

What I like about the possibilities of TYPO3 on Symfony is the 
declarative language, YAML[1]. It has already been discussed on the 
typo3.dev newsgroup many times with a view to replacing TypoScript. I 
also like Symfony's use of Syck[2], is a YAML parser maintained for PHP, 
Python and Ruby. In fact both are packaged with Ruby on Rails, which 
tells me it will continue to be actively developed.

On the other hand, Symfony is a very new framework. They're only at v0.6 
and there are not really any high traffic web apps using it other than 
Askeet[3]. Also with the approach of the new Zend PHP Framework[4] in 
the works I'm not sure if Symfony is the basket to put all our eggs in 
before Zend has come through with the goods. I'm sure it won't be long 
before PHP as an official framework in Zend.

I for one give Symfony two thumbs up, but think it would be a good idea 
to wait and see what Zend come up with.


Cheers,
David

[1] http://yaml.org
[2] http://whytheluckystiff.net/syck
[3] http://www.askeet.com/
[4] http://www.zend.com/collaboration/framework_overview