I’ve decided to take a look at the Zend Framework.

I work daily with the symfony framework.
While symfony is powerful and feature rich, it does have many requirements and is quite resource intensive.

For these reasons, I do not use symfony for my own projects.
In the past, I have used Code Ignitor, a very easy to use and lightweight framework.

What I Like

Code Ignitor

• Simple to use
• Easy to setup
• Well documented

Symfony

• Very powerful (especially the admin generator)
• feature rich, many many plug-ins available
• Modular design

What I Don’t Like

Code Ignitor

• Does not have alot of extra features
• Is not modular in design

Symfony

• Server requirements may not be available on by all shared hosts
• Resource intensive
• Documentation can be difficult to find what you’re searching for

What I Want

I am looking for a middle ground between the two frameworks.
Zend is perhaps that. It can be modular in design, has many classes available, and can be expanded with other frameworks such as ezComponents