Why did you choose Symfony instead of Yii or Laravel?

Symfony stands out for its high flexibility due to its modularity and the ability to use only the necessary components. This makes it attractive for building complex, scalable applications. A large community and quality documentation facilitate the development process and solving arising problems. Symfony also provides a stable and predictable development model.

Compared to Laravel and Yii:

• Laravel: More opinionated and aimed at rapid development, which can be an advantage for less complex projects. However, for deep customization and control over each component, Symfony is often preferable.
• Yii: Also a powerful framework with good performance. Symfony often wins in terms of ecosystem maturity, the number of available bundles, and better support for PHP standards.

My choice of Symfony is based on the need to build robust applications with the possibility of detailed control and scaling.

<?php

// Example of using the HttpFoundation component in Symfony
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

$request = Request::createFromGlobals();

$response = new Response(
    'Hello, world!',
    Response::HTTP_OK,
    ['content-type' => 'text/html']
);

$response->send();