Symfony
PHP full-stack web framework built from a set of reusable, standalone components.
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Symfony is a PHP full-stack web framework assembled from reusable components that can also be installed on their own. A project starts from the Symfony CLI or a Composer skeleton and uses Twig for templates. Database access comes through Doctrine, which the docs cover but which stays optional; it supports relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL as well as MongoDB. Ready-made features are added as bundles. A Docker setup is linked from the docs and maintained outside the framework repository. Symfony SAS, based in France, holds the trademark.
Worth knowing
Standard releases get bug and security fixes for eight months, while LTS releases get bug fixes for three years and security fixes for four, so the version chosen sets the support window.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Per request3
- Rendering
- On a server1
- Install with
- symfony new (Symfony CLI), composer create-project symfony/skeleton3
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-18: name, Categories, Templating, Rendering
symfony.com - 2026-10-18: links, Written in, License, License model, GitHub stars
github.com/symfony/symfony - 2026-10-18: links, Runtime, Minimum runtime, Install with, Runs as
symfony.com/doc/current/setup.html - 2026-10-18: Maintainer, Maintained by, Headquarters
sensiolabs.com/legal/notice - 2026-10-18: wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1322933 - 2026-10-18: Minimum runtime
repo.packagist.org/p2/symfony/symfony.json - 2026-10-18: Databases
symfony.com/doc/current/doctrine.html - 2026-10-18: Multilingual
symfony.com/doc/current/translation.html - 2026-10-18: Current major version, Last release
github.com/symfony/symfony/releases - 2026-10-18: Packagist downloads
packagist.org/packages/symfony/symfony.json - 2026-10-18: Packagist downloads
packagist.org/packages/symfony/framework-bundle.json - 2026-10-18: links
symfony.com/bundles - 2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies - 2026-10-25: Dependent repositories, Dependent packages
packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/symfony%2Fsymfony - 2026-10-25: Packagist downloads a month
packagist.org/packages/symfony/symfony/stats.json