Question

This probably comes across as a very naive question, and I am absolutely assuming I’ll get panned for this, but nevertheless:

I have an existing Drupal website that is not meeting it’s needs. The dilemma is straightforward, half the website needs requires Drupal and the other half is probably better done using a framework such as Symfony. I wasn’t smart enough to judge this before, else I would have used Symfony + Sympal to achieve my needs.

But now I have an existing website in Drupal with substantial content added to it and a growing need to create another module that very specifically achieves the goals of the application layer on the website. There isn’t time for me to sit down and learn the nuances of Drupal’s module building and all that jazz when I can comfortably do it within Symfony.

My challenge here is to understand if there is a possibility to introduce Symfony into my existing website and somehow link the two?

Thanks for your opinions, feel free to ask me to elaborate !

Answer 1

I’ve been putting some time into the Symfony Drupal module, which allows you to call the Symfony framework from your own modules. As long as your module depends on “symfony”, you will be able to access the Symfony namespace classes.