Over on our sister site, AjaxDeveloper.org today, there's a pointer to a post from the Ajax Blog about putting the symfony framework to use in conjunction with PHP.

Symfony has Ajax helpers that make programming an elaborate interface a piece of cake. This tutorial will show you step-by-step how to create an Ajax-powered symfony application in minutes.

This PHP framework presents a nice screencast demonstrating how easy it is to create an ajaxified web application. This is very very similar to the Ruby on Rails demonstration application, which is really cool, to see people boil it down to a demo-able screen capture movie.

The demo (a shopping cart) allows you to drag and drop the items into an area rather than having to click to put them in the cart - definitely a cool way to show off what the framework's capable of....