Looking for a good PHP framework - definition of "good" to follow

I'm looking for a "good" PHP framework to suit my needs:

• well-documented, preferably with a handful of beginner tutorials (majorly, majorly important.. I looked at Kohana and felt like I wouldn't be able to jump in with both feet and learn it)
• fairly solid commu开发者_开发问答nity (either here on Stack Overflow, or on a forum) for questions, etc
• stable and time-tested
• greatly reduces amount of code/coding (e.g. what jQuery does for JavaScript)

I'm pretty solid at PHP, I'm just looking for something that will help speed up the development process, handle cleansing input from users, simplify database queries, that sort of thing. MVC and OO is nice, but not exactly a requirement for me.

Have you take a look at symfony?

Symfony (version 1 or 2 - doesn't matter) has a great documentation (with a book to guide you building a web, a book showing you how the framework works, and the usual API documentation). Check here for the full documentation of symfony1 and symfony2.

Symfony2 is rather new, so while I can say it's stable (I'm using it and quite sure it is), time-tested-ness (is that a word? :p) is not so good. But if you want a stable and time-tested, you could try symfony1, because it's still supported until 2013.

The symfony community is also great, both the user community and the developers. Stackoverflow also has many good symfony users, and you can check their mailing list and other resources here.

As for reducing amount of code, symfony comes with a lot of standard library, ORM, and many code-generation tool (usually called from command line). So yeah, it save so many code. In symfony1, you can even generate a CRUD application without a single line of code written by you. I know you also can do this in symfony2, but I haven't tried it yet. You can be sure that you will more focused on coding your business logic well than fighting the framework.

Hope this helps.