How Symfony components power Drupal’s drive to new frontiers

With the release of Drupal 10, Symfony’s PHP framework is even more tightly integrated into the DXP/CMS.

This article originally appeared on Symfony Station, your source for Symfony, PHP, and Cybersecurity news.

As a quick FYI, Symfony Station is a Drupal site. You can understand our decision-making process for choosing it by reading our article, How Symfony Station was built: an adventurous exploration of layout solutions.

For newbies, let’s start with a look at Symfony and Drupal. If you are already familiar with them, feel free to scroll down to Why Drupal uses Symfony.

Whenever possible, I believe in letting people speak for themselves. So, in a twist, let’s see what the two say about each other.

Symfony says this about Drupal:

“Drupal is an open-source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Drupal is open-source software maintained and developed by a community of 1,000,000+ users and developers. It’s distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or “GPL”), which means anyone is free to download it and share it with others.”