ComparingPHPFrameworks(Symfony,CakePHP,YIIandCodeIgniter)

I went through the exersice of choosing a PHP Framework, i found it
really hard to decide since most of them are similar and there are many
good frameworks out there, however at the end i narrowed down to 4
frameworks and the winner was Symfony


To decide i had to try a simple application with each Framework

Why Symfony


Symfony
is an enterprise level framework which is used by Yahoo and other big
websites, it is proven and powerful, also Symfony 2 overcomes all
problems of old symfony versions like speed, templating ... etc


Also
when i used it i found it well structured, relatively easy to learn, it
provides a very good  command line and the ORM was great (Symphony uses
Doctrine)


Why Not Others


Warning
: some of the reasons are more subjective than objective

CakePHP
was easy to learn and you will have a great community support but i
disliked the ORM and the naming convention constraints, i wasn't moving
fast when i used it


CodeIgniter
is very easy, fast but it is more simple than what i was looking for and has no ORM

Yii
is lovely however the model/module generation is done using GUI plug-in
( i didn't investigate other options) and i didn't like the folder
structuring and the generated code, however if i didn't use Symfony i
would have used YII