Yii

Outline

• Why Yii?• What rocks on Yii?• Dark sides of Yii

Why Yii?

• Better performance compare to other php frameworks

• Awesome documentation and tutorial (included in source code package)

• Less code• More features compare to CodeIgniter

http://www.yiiframework.com/performance/

What’s rock in Yii?

• Gii• ActiveRecord (+Relational)• Built in authentication• User Friendly Url

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• Create CRUD in a blink!

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1. Define table2. Use model generator3. Use CRUD generator4. Voila!

ActiveRecord (+Relational)

• It works!• Requirement:– Declare foreign key in MySQL– Use gii Model Generator

$post = Post::model()->findByPk(2);$comments = $post->comments;foreach($comments as $r){ echo $r->content;}

Built in Authentication

• Yii provide login form• We only need to modify

components/UserIdentity to give additional information in user session

User Friendly Url

• http://localhost/yii/test/createPost

Many More…

• Caching• Theming• Etc …

Dark Sides of Yii

• Slower learing curve