The purpose of this article is to simplify the installation process of symfony. Symfony installation can be a very tricky process and at some point might get very annoying that you might consider using another framework with an easy installation steps just like CakePHP. Symfony can be installed or used into two different ways:
- PEAR installation(suitable for hosting that provides SSH access)
- Sandbox installation(suitable for shared hosting with no SSH access, note: the name Sandbox here is not related to Sandbox Web Solutions)