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+1 for Symfony - it's a very powerful and well-architected framework.
FWIW, Yahoo are involved in an ongoing process of moving their stuff over to it. They add in some of their own in-house bits, primarily to adapt it to their internal build of PHP, but none of the differences are particularly significant; all the advantages in areas like security and I18N are in the standard framework.