I've made several small sites with it. It used some great ideas like the data model been totally flexible while easy to use and xml + xslt as server side templating was nice to use. The in-browser developer tools were good too.
Unfortunately there were also a bunch of bad points that never got fixed. Breaking changes for pluggins exhausted the small contributors community. I think the project is basically dead at this point and I've moved to another cms for small sites. (Keystone.js)
All in all, if i were to rewrite symphonycms now, i would drop xslt in favour of jade or something less anoying to writte in.
EDIT: I've been browsing symphonycms repo after writting this and it's untrue to say the project is dead since Brendo is still actively commiting.
I've made several small sites with it. It used some great ideas like the data model been totally flexible while easy to use and xml + xslt as server side templating was nice to use. The in-browser developer tools were good too.
Unfortunately there were also a bunch of bad points that never got fixed. Breaking changes for pluggins exhausted the small contributors community. I think the project is basically dead at this point and I've moved to another cms for small sites. (Keystone.js)
All in all, if i were to rewrite symphonycms now, i would drop xslt in favour of jade or something less anoying to writte in.
EDIT: I've been browsing symphonycms repo after writting this and it's untrue to say the project is dead since Brendo is still actively commiting.
http://cocoon.apache.org/1365_1_1.html