Last updated on February 10, 2018
Yii is Open Source PHP Framework. Qiang Xue is the founder of Yii, He started the development of this open source framework on January 1st, 2008.
What is Yii?
- Yii is fast and Easy,efficient and secure framework
- Yii is great tool kit for developing Web 2.0 applications.
- Great documented PHP framework
Why Yii?
- Yii is Open Source ,Free to Use
- Yii is Well Documented
- Yii is High Performance
- Yii comes with caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc
- Minimum Development Time compared to other
- Yii is Secure and efficient
Where You Can Get Yii?
You can Download Yii at : http://www.yiiframework.com/
Yii features:
Wikipedia: Yii Features
- Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern.
- Database Access Objects (DAO), query builder, Active Record and database migration.
- Integration with jQuery.
- Form input and validation.
- Ajax-enabled widgets, such as auto-complete input field, tree view, and so on.
- Built-in authentication support. It also supports authorization via hierarchical role-based access control (RBAC).
- Skinning and theming.
- Automatic generation of complex WSDL service specifications and management of Web service request handling.
- Internationalization and localization (I18N and L10N). It supports message translation, date and time formatting, number formatting, and interface localization.
- Layered caching scheme. It supports data caching, page caching, fragment caching and dynamic content. The storage medium of caching can be changed.
- Error handling and logging. Errors are handled and presented more nicely, and log messages can be categorized, filtered and routed to different destinations.
- Security measures include cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention, cross-site request forgery (CSRF) prevention, cookie tampering prevention, etc.
- Unit and functionality testing based on PHPUnit and Selenium.
- Automatic code generation for the skeleton application, CRUD applications, etc.
- Code generated by Yii components and command line tools complies to the XHTML standard.
- Carefully designed to work well with third-party code. For example, it’s possible to use code from PEAR or Zend Framework in a Yii application.