Doing Web Application Development the Right Way
About a year ago I first got in contact with [Ruby on Rails](http://www.rubyonrails.org). I don't know anymore what fascinated me more, [Ruby](http://www.ruby.org) itself or the "on Rails" framework. But that doesn't matter, it just felt so good. I did a project with Ruby on Rails and it was a great experience how fast Web Application Development can be. But unfortunately Ruby isn't (yet?) as widespread as [PHP](http://www.php.net) on webservers, so doing it the on-Rails-way was limited to this one project. But then I I found the [symfony](http://www.symfony-project.com) framework a open source web framework for PHP.
The [project website](http://www.symfony-project.com) looked very promising and interesting. Reading the [documentation](http://www.symfony-project.com/content/documentation.html) was just like reading the [Ruby on Rails documentation](http://rubyonrails.org/docs): Almost the same features, same names and techniques (you know scaffolding? It's there!).
Like Ruby on Rails symfony provides the whole MVC stack, I18N, ORM, AJAX support and much more features a Web Application Developer never wants to miss again.
If you are creating Web Applications using PHP you should definitely have a look at symfony, the Ruby on Rails for PHP!
