Trq,
OK maybe I was a bit dramatic saying Symfony requires advanced command line usage But it is definitely more troublesome to configure than CI.
I have used both CI and Symfony2, and I feel they both have advantages/dissadvantages. Symfony2 can sometimes feel ridiculously over complex at times and make me want to bang my head against the wall.
To be honest, I don't know that much about design patterns, but if CI is so poorly designed, why would someone like Phil Sturgeon, who seems to be well respected in the PHP world, work on it for so long?
Jessica,
I'm thinking about using Yii for next project. Would you recommend it over Symfony2? I want a framework that is fun, and Symfony isn't (IMO).
Cheers All,
Jon