This. Laravel is vastly superior to Kohana in every way, and Laravel uses some of the Symfony components under the hood. If you want something a little more CM

This. Laravel is vastly superior to Kohana in every way, and Laravel uses some of the Symfony components under the hood. If you want something a little more CMS-ey, Drupal 8 is being built with Symfony components as well, and provides a really good set of tools for building and maintaining a website over time.