An acronym for “Yes It Is”, Yii is a framework of PHP web application, and an object-oriented, open source MVC. There are various other frameworks of PHP, which are good, but Yii stands out because it supports rapid development, and promotes clean DRY designs. Yii offers the breadth of everything with a few limitations, and high performance package.
Yii project was stared on January 1, 2008 by Qiang Xue, who has also previously developed the framework called Prado. The feedback of developers and the experienced that was gained from that project solidified the requirement of a much secured and fast framework that is customizable and can meet the expectations of web 2.0 application development. After a year’s development from then, PHP Yii was finally released to the public on December 3, 2008. The extremely impressive performance of this framework when compared to other PHP based frameworks immediately caught the attention of developers and became popular, and grown to an ever increasing rate.
> MVC or Model-View-Controller design pattern.
> PHP Yii supports date and time formatting, message translation, number formatting, and interface localization.
> The functionality and unit testing is based on PHPUnit and Selenium.
> It is designed cautiously so that it can work well with third party codes. For example, it is possible to use code from Zend framework and PEAR in a Yii application.
> It supports layered data caching, fragment caching, page caching, and dynamic content. The medium of storage in caching can be modified.
> PHP Yii also features generation of complex WSDL service specifications and management of Web service request handling.
> In PHP Yii, error handling and logging are done more nicely, and can be filtered, routed and categorized to diverse destinations.
> Yii is comprised of a number of security measures, which aids in preventing your Web applications from attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, cookie tampering, and cross-site request forgery (CSRF).
> Yii offers a set of highly extensible and intuitive tools for code generation that can help you in speedily generating the code you need for features such as form input, CRUD.
> A detailed documentation and tutorial of every single method is available for PHP Yii, which is best for a systematic learning.
> Yii implements a skinning and theming mechanism, which helps the user in quickly switching the outlook of a Yii-power website.
Highly Extensible
If seen virtually, all the components of this framework are highly extensible, and they are customizable enough to suit the needs of the user.
Rapid Development
Yii generates all the basic CRUD operations thereby providing web applications running in no time. It not only help us in developing the application faster, but also maintains the application design of the application as recommended by Yii. It also ensures greater security of the applications.
Easy to Install
Time is extremely precious for the web developers, and no one wants to spend that precious time waiting for complicated installations and configurations. PHP Yii is an easy to install framework without much hassle and troubles.
Easy Data Migration
The migration utility provides reasonable control over the database changes, which helps in upgrading and downgrading application version on different installations.
Utilize Modern Technologies
This pure OOP framework takes advantage of some of the more advanced features of PHP, which includes SPL classes and interfaces, late static binding, and anonymous functions.
Simplifies Security
The crucial part of any web application is the security concern. Fortunately Yii has some great features that helps in combating with the security threats. The Security application component of Yii including several methods help assist in creating a more secured application. It generates a secure hash from the password, which makes a random salt for the user, validates the password, and then generates a random string of any length.
Shorten Development Time
The repetitive task in most of the projects is something that no one wants to waste time with. There are a few tools in Yii to help you spend less time on those tasks, and more time customizing your application to suit the needs of your client. One of the most powerful tool among these is “Yii’, which a web-based code tool. This allows you to quickly create code templates for Forms, Extensions, Models, Extensions, Models, etc.
Being a good framework, Yii genuinely helps in creating modern web applications, and ensure that all of them performs well. It does a lot of heavy lifting for you by creating testable and secure websites for you. Most of the features can be modified according to the needs and requirements of the user.
Manish Jain is the co-founder and Managing Director at Konstant Infosolutions. He is responsible for the overall operations of the company and has played a major role in bringing Konstant up from its humble beginnings and, with his immense energy and drive, transforming it into a globally trusted name in IT solutions.
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