Why Yii?

Presenter: Naincy GuptaMindfire Solutions

Introduction

Architecture

Technologies

Features of Yii

Comparison with other PHP Frameworks

Why to choose?

Agenda

IntroductionYII is a framework for creating Web applications using PHP 5 (or greater).

High-performance framework and good for developing Web applications.

YII Framework is best because it is based on DRY (Don't repeat

yourself) design pattern that is why is called fast application

development framework.

YII is designed from the beginning to fit for serious Web

application development.

YII is a pure OOP framework.

Architecture

Architecture Flow:

1.) Pre-initialize the application with CApplication::preinit();2.) Set up class autoloader and error handling3.) Register core application components4.) Load application configuration5.) Initialize the application

- Register application behaviours- Load static application components

6.) Raise on Begin Request event7.) Process the user request

- Resolve the user request- Create controller- Run controller

Technologies

YII built with help of Qiang Xue made use of severa; other web technologies to enhance power of YII Qiang Xue used.

PRADO is major source in development of YII

YII referenced its implementation of the active recprd design pattern for its ORM layer.

Joomla and Symphony were also used in development in YII

jQuery is integrated in YII

Features of YIIGreat Integration with industry standards CSS and JS frameworks like jQuery, BootStrap, etc. Made it easy to create modern responsive designs.

YII also hepls in maintaining the application design as recommended by YII, which helps in maintaining application security.

Migration utility provide great control over Database changes, will help us to upgrade / downgrade application version on differnt installations.

Large collection of widgets and third party components.

Custom Theme Management

YII caching support is very handy with high traffic websites

Unit Testing Frameworks

- PHP5 MVC - Powerful Cache- Nice API - RBAC, auth framework- Migrations - Console- Form Builder - Error Handler, Log- Themes - GII- Test Framework - Widgets- Well documented - Friendly community

Comparison with other

Frameworks

Features YII Laravel Symphony2 CI

Version 1.1.14 4.1.24 2.4 2.1.4

Requirement >= PHP 5.1.0 >= 5.3.7 with mcrypt ext.

>=PHP5.3.2 >= PHP 5.1.6

Cache Storage APC, MemCache, XCache, ZendPlatform

File System, Database, Memcached, APC, Redis, Xcache, WinCache, Memory

APC,eAccelerator,XCache

File, apc, memcached, xcache

Testing Library PHPUnit, Selenium

PHPUNIT PHPUNIT PHPUnit (In development)

Security XSS, Xsrf, Sql Injection

XSS, Xsrf, Sql Injection

XSS, Xsrf, Sql Injection

XSS, Xsrf, Sql Injection

Template System

PHP and Prado's - Others using Ext. (Razor, Smarty, Twig, etc)

Blade, PHP, Custom

PHP, Twig PHP, Simple template parser "{var_name}"

Logging Management

Yes Yes PSR-3 compliant

Why to Choose??When we choose any Framework for development then what we want:

- development should be staright forward- Not do complex stuff for web apps- Easy Learning and easy to debug and fix.- Less configuration- As simple API possible

Here, answer is YII.

Yii has all these features and many more benefits that we already discussed. Some more benefits are:- Easy to customize the application as per customers requirements.

- Provides great command line tool that help us create complicated CRON jobs.

- Data Cache and Performance

Questions??Mail me your questions at nansee1804@gmail.com

Thank you