[BNM] Moving from Symfony to Zend

[Jason Bailey]

--- On Tue, 12/8/08, Raj Anand <rajeshwar.anand at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We are just moving form Symfony to Zend after a long long
> debate. I was
> wondering if anyone else had similar thoughts in the past.

This probably doesn't hold up to much rigorous checking but if you google something like "Zend Documentation" (>1 million) and "Symfony Documentation" or "$yourframeworkhere support", then you tend to get a lot more back for Zend. To me this equates to a lot more people talking about Zend than symfony. More people leads to more support, I'd hope. Compare that to "agavi documentation"** which returns about 12000 results (a factor of 100 less) and while I'm told the fork of this (Mojavi???) is pure MVC, the level of support and use would worry me. 

I don't think this really tells you which is best (apparently it's mojavi -according the a strange person at phplondon08) but I think a big community of users is important. That said I quite like symfony although not used it on anything other than silly home projects.

I'm assuming that googling is similar to say searching for dodgy copies of software on the internet. I'm sure there was a study which equated popular (good?) software to its high availability on illegal download sites. If say you compare Photoshop with the Corel one (which I forget the name of) then you find more of photoshop than the other (I avoided comparing Word and wordperfect here).

Not sure that helps but community and documentation are important. Just how large does the community need to be?

Jason

**In fact I did a typo and searched for agavidocumentaiton (no space) and got  "Did you mean: java documentation " -ha ha google very funny.





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