content ?>

and

content ?>

(dots indicating inexistant spaces)

Assuming that you have an object “article” with the property “content” (which was the case in your Rails example, but not in the symfony example) you would write just the very same in PHP:

#source: http://www.symfony-project.com/tutorial/1_0/my-first-project/content ?>

PHP offers this short syntax, although it may not be enabled on all configurations. And writing

content ?>

isn’t any longer, especially if you use code completion (which any good editor should have).

getRaw(’sf_content’) ?> is the placeholder for the entire template that is to be decorated with the application’s layout (see layout.php); would give you the value of the ‘content’ property for the ‘article’ object.

What you meant to say was getContent() ?>, which you would place in your template and setup via your action (using Symfony’s default ORM – Propel).

You clearly haven’t used Symfony if you are making fundamental mistakes like that, so you should refrain from passing comment on it until you do.

Wouldn’t symphony be rails competitor since rails came first? Since when does symphony lead the pack?

It just doesn’t rock as much.

I’d rather *write* this (and not use some generator):
#source:http://www.railsjitsu.com/blog/ruby-on-rails/using-fragment-caching-in-rails/
<%= article.content %>

Then this:
# source: http://www.symfony-project.com/tutorial/1_0/my-first-project
<?php echo $sf_data->getRaw(’sf_content’) ?>

The first is terse and to the point and I can maintain it easily … without language boilerplate syntax mucking up the works.
why does php recommend no short_tags … jsp, asp, php and rails use short tag religiously … please don’t make me type more.