I have just started using laravel for a big project and its has everything i need. the framework i have ever seen.

i recommend you to use https://cartalyst.com/manual/sentry for auth/acl

[quote]I have seen it is compatible with Symphony packages?[/quote]

Not really. Symfony uses Bundles and has its own way of handling services. That being said, if (composer) packages are written well enough they should be framework agnostic and then have framework specific bridge packages.

As for this framework vs that framework. Your project seems simple enough to be used a test case. Try and build it with Laravel, then try a few others if you're still curious.

Laravel uses a lot of Symfony components (same HTTP foundation etc) so most packages work pretty easily. I'm using the security voters, twig, httpcache etc from Symfony with just a few simple ServiceProviders.

Thanks, I had a look at most of the frameworks and this does look to be the best one to try first.

I have installed https://github.com/andrewelkins/Laravel-4-Bootstrap-Starter-Site

This is all much different to what I usually hack together

Hi Adam,

From someone who was in the same position I recommend you give laravel a go, up until a few year ago I too was working in php without a framework. Over the past couple of years I have worked with Yii, EE, symphony, Joomla!(framework), codeigniter and slim before landing on laravel. I haven't looked at another framework since, Laravel-4-Bootstrap-Starter-Site is a good place to start too.

.k