Symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.
Symfony is aimed at building robust applications in an enterprise context. This means that you have full control over the configuration: from the directory structure to the foreign libraries, almost everything can be customized.
Features
Speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications
Low performance overheads
Symfony can use its own caching engine to speed code execution
Gives developers full control over the configuration
Replaces the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure