segdeha, I have a friend who develops with Symfony, so I have looked into it, but what I like best about the Zend Framework is that everything is so modular. I read that, with Symfony, you need to run a few commands to set it up, but with ZF, if you'd like, you can include only a single component and use that. Of course, for some it would also be positive that it's backed by Zend. However, I've only gotten into the whole framework stuff recently (like two weeks ago) so I'm not too much of an expert. ZF does seem to have a community of very talented coders backing it, but I'm sure you can say the same for Symfony.