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.
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 your computer meets all requirements.
This is the story of the genesis of Symfony – born from the imagination of the web designers at SensioLabs, a web developer in its own right. Symfony was made available to everyone under an Open Source license.
Symfony 5 releases together with a new book called Symfony 5: The Fast Track written by Symfony's creator Fabien Potencier. Learn how to create modern web applications with Symfony and Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Docker, APIs, Single-Page Applications and more.
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 is a reusable set of standalone, decoupled and cohesive PHP components that solve common web development problems. Instead of using these low-level components, you can use the ready-to-be-used…
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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.
