Yii Reviews & Product Details

Models / Commands execution of Cron Jobs but at the same time you can use the same models for websites validation and usability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything changes when you have to migrate from version to version, for example from Yii 1.1 to 2.0 or even 3.0. This might bring downgrades or affect your ETA on projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we evaluated frameworks, Yii's logic and programming was clearest and just made the most sense. The framework is fast, Active Record is easy to learn and flexible, and the "gii" scaffolding software makes building the admin area of any website a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't know of any specific downsides - other than market share, and documentation. Laravel seems to be taking over at this point. And their documentation is by far more thorough than Yii's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I Love working with Yii, and hope to continue to for well into the future. Yii's installer was very easy to use and didn't take too long to download, And the features were also easy to view. I also enjoyed the font and colour scheme that was made available to me as default as it was easy too see and read whilst writing my code. I also think that the file system is well thought out and helps keep it quick and easy to switch between projects that i am currently working on, in my eyes this is a huge plus because minutes wasted switching between projects are minutes lost that i could potentially be writing something great that could affect the way people see there computers forever. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although I love working with Yii it does have a downside when I'm working with it I feel that the Ajax features are not well-drafted, which meant that I often require the help of JavaScript to complete my tasks, this often slows down the speed at which I can work and I hope that you may be able to take on my review to perhaps improve the features so that javaScript would be needed less or even not at all in the future, this would be a huge improvement to how Yii's program currently works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Built-in mechanism for creating presentation widgets, for example, for placing various blocks on the site: recent posts, categories, navigation, advertising blocks, etc.

Lots of ready-made extensions on Github and installing them via Composer

Built-in widgets for displaying data: DetailView (rows in a table), ListView (List), GridView (tables).

Contains a built-in and very convenient debug panel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Too much cohesion between the backend and frontend parts of Yii2. The framework offers to use the jQuery and Bootstrap library, which are built into the core of the framework by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yii borrows a lot from Ruby on Rails and it was initially a more superior framework than even the incumbent CodeIgniter. It allows users to easily use Models to connect to the backend database and easily create header detail forms. It also has a built-in RBAS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unfortunately, Yii I believe suffers from an ecosystem that is not as vibrant as Laravel. The value chain for a programming language has evolved into not just on clean syntax and such, but rather, what can the framework offer as an overall programming workflow from coding all the way to production. Very few open source projects are using Yii as the base framework, which discourages developers from adopting it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has CRUD generators that use Gii. It provides the user with plenty options for layouts and themes for unique designing of the web page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It doesn’t provide AR queries. It doesn’t allow multiple relations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Crud generator using gii

Nice ajax helpers especially with grip view Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not very good at many to many relation

AR doesnt support many doctrine like AR queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. The connectivity with the database is really good and secure even you can connect multiple database at one time with a simple code.

2. As it follows the MVC(Model, View, Controller) pattern so it is easy to manage your DOM, Database, Logic in separate files.

3. When you are going to develop a application Validation, Security play an important role and in Yii it is easy to validate you and secure your application and your data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. The installation is not easy this is the one thing i do not like in Yii. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. The documentation and the libraries are so easy to read and understand that they will help you develop your projects easily.

2. Follow the MVC pattern so you have a choice to manage your View, Models, Controllers in different folders with different file names with the extension abc.php. By following these MVC patterns, your code will be more usable, manageable, and readable.

3. As it follows PDO for database queries, it is much more secure, and connectivity with the database is good enough. You can even connect different RDBMS for different sections of the projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. There is nothing to dislike but the very little thing that you will have to include every file even when you make their objects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yii is a very powerful PHP framework with lots of features and some of them are the following:

1) It supports GII code generation tool which speeds up the development process.

2) We can build web apps and console apps.

3) It supports different extensions like gearman, mongodb, redis etc. which are very handy for development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yii is a great framework with some following limitations:

1) Its documentation isn't easy to understand, quite complicated.

2) As a developer, it only supports hasOne and hasMany relations in db.

3) Sometimes, it's very difficult to debug internal errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.