Both Laravel and Symfony are awesome frameworks with their pros and cons.
Laravel is very easy to get started and has a lot of functionality ready for you.
This does not mean that Symfony is harder but it needs more work and initial configuration.
Having said that I would choose Symfony for 3 main reasons:
Backwards compatibility
Enforcing best practices
Doctrine ORM
What I don't like in Laravel is the fact that you can access everything (container, request, session etc.) anywhere in the application code just by using Facades and helper functions. This will lead to poor and difficult to maintain code in my opinion.
In the end I would advise to study both frameworks. They have many similarities and you never know when that knowledge will come handy.
P.S.: To learn Symfony I highly recommend symfonycasts.com tutorials. Ryan Weaver is an awesome teacher and he is the lead for Symfony documentation.
Both Laravel and Symfony are awesome frameworks with their pros and cons.
Laravel is very easy to get started and has a lot of functionality ready for you.
This does not mean that Symfony is harder but it needs more work and initial configuration.
Having said that I would choose Symfony for 3 main reasons:
What I don't like in Laravel is the fact that you can access everything (container, request, session etc.) anywhere in the application code just by using Facades and helper functions. This will lead to poor and difficult to maintain code in my opinion.
In the end I would advise to study both frameworks. They have many similarities and you never know when that knowledge will come handy.
P.S.: To learn Symfony I highly recommend symfonycasts.com tutorials. Ryan Weaver is an awesome teacher and he is the lead for Symfony documentation.
Doctrine is a huge + for Symfony.