Things to like about Symfony so far
A few days into learning Symfony and so far I’m keen on
- configuration check to start with
 - good MVC separation
 - ability to generate initial MVC components from a database definition
 - form validation to match database constraints
 - wrapping various HTTP functions and globals in a request and response object
 - separate dev and prod environments
 - ajax integration - like defining a div as draggable in PHP
 - explicit support for initial and test data
 
Things not to like
- well there are quite a lot of files