I've developed my own PHP framework which is used to power many different apps. At the moment, it uses Twig, Symfony YAML, Monolog and Facebook SDK as components. Now I need to create an admin section so those who update the content can login to a secure area, and very likely a user section, so their would be different roles too.
I like the look of Zend and Symfony's components and I have found many Stack Overflow questions related to it, but I was wondering:
If I use Symfony2's Security Component, how do I use it outside of the Symfony2 framework? This is very frustratingly missing from the Components Handbook, seeing as they've documented every other of their components.
If I use Zend_Auth and Zend_Acl, can I load them with Composer, without downloading the full stack? Or would I have to download it manually and extract the classes?
Do you recommend another package?