Yii 1.1.14 release candidate is available

http://www.yiiframework.com/news/72/yii-1-1-14-release-candidate-is-available/

by resurtm • 13 years ago

48 17 13 years ago

adamors• 13 years ago

Yii is cool, it's one of the most mature and opiniated PHP frameworks out there. I wish their Active Record implementation was available elsewhere as well.

rdoherty• 13 years ago

I've used Yii in a few projects and it's probably the most underrated and least known mature PHP framework out there. Amazingly well organized, documented and powerful. I'm always a little disappointed when a new PHP framework pops up and gets all the attention while not even achieving 20% of Yii's feature set.

brianbreslin• 13 years ago

Can you give a high level comparison between yii and cakephp?

jonahx• 13 years ago

It's been more than a year since I was programming php daily, but I used cake and yii back to back then for similar projects, and I felt yii was significantly better. It's also much faster iirc. Not an answer to your question, I know, but fwiw...

aram3• 13 years ago

I agree there; somehow I got the feeling that mostly Chinese and Russian folks are using it, meaning that up-to-date resources/tutorials in English are limited.

One of the major things in v1.x that put me off from feeling too comfortable with it was the lack of coding standards - naming conventions, spacing etc. This might be personal, but to me that was one of the little annoying things that didn't really let me make the switch completely.

v2[1] addressed these things which may lead to a better adoption. It looks pretty promising, but it will need more time to become stable.

[1] https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2

phpnode3• 13 years ago

I'm a bit puzzled by your post to be honest;

While there are significant numbers of Chinese and Russian Yii developers, it's always been an English first project, all documentation is in English (as well as other languages) and almost all 3rd party extensions are written in English too.

Regarding coding standards, Yii 1.x code does indeed have quite a cramped style and this (afaik) was never documented, it was more of an informal agreement between contributors to maintain a consistent feel. But why did you find this a barrier for entry when writing applications on top of it? It's only whitespace and of course, you're free to use your own conventions in your own code.

aarondf• 13 years ago

I've written a lot on Yii/Heroku if you care to look: http://aaronfrancis.com/?tag=Yii. I love Yii, it's certainly my go-to for PHP frameworks at this point. It's super powerful.

vader1• 13 years ago

Seconded; after an extensive comparison over a year ago, Yii is now my framework of choice on any PHP project, and I haven't regretted that choice a single time since. It's fast, powerful, extensible and well documented.

As for English documentation, their guide [1] as well as their main tutorial [2] are in English and are written and structured better than the documentation for almost all other frameworks I looked at.

[1] http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/quickstart.firs...

[2] http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/

misterjinx• 13 years ago

well documented, yes, powerful, could be, but to say about yii that it is well organized is way too much.

trestles• 13 years ago

Why is a dot release on the homepage of hacker news? Not saying that to be snarky but is there any specific reason.

phpnode3• 13 years ago

Because people upvoted it. Also this is a relatively significant release with some important new features, e.g. redis cache support and password helpers

ainsej• 13 years ago

Yii is an amazing Framework all-round, well documented and has a fairly active community.

I just finished my first Yii extension which can come in handy when mixing Yii URL creation and Javascript: https://github.com/Ainsleh/Yii-JSUrlManager

twidlit• 13 years ago

We are using this for our web and backend at Lifebit and i can confirm this makes PHP development so much more enjoyable. We have tried Code Igniter, CakePHP and a bunch of others. Has the right mix of community, documentation, weight, speed and code commits activity.

babuskov• 13 years ago

Some time ago I wrote why Yii is much better than CodeIgniter:

http://www.backwardcompatible.net/123-7-reasons-why-yii-fram...

Yii 1.1.14 release candidate is available

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