Symfony is a PHP framework and a set of reusable components that underpin many modern web applications, including Drupal 8 and later. Articles cover Symfony fundamentals, component-level explainers, version migrations, and how Symfony’s release cadence influences downstream platforms.
What is Symfony? Symfony is two things bundled under one name. It is a full-stack PHP web framework you can use to build applications from scratch, and it is a library of standalone, reusable PHP components that other frameworks, content management...
The Symfony 7 vs Symfony 6 comparison is, in some ways, an anti-climax. Symfony 7.0 released in November 2023 with no headline new features. That was deliberate. Symfony’s major versions are cleanup releases: they remove the APIs that previous...
Drupal moved from a homegrown PHP application stack to a Symfony foundation in 2015 with Drupal 8, and never looked back. Today’s Drupal 11 (which we cover in our pillar overview) sits on top of Symfony 7. For developers and architects making...
