Yii Framework 1.0 released!
Qiang Xue (creator of the PRADO Framework) has just released the stable version of his new Yii Framework released under new BSD license.
Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework for developing large-scale Web applications.
Yii comes with a full stack of features needed by today’s Web 2.0 application development. It is written in strict OOP and is easy to learn with its detailed tutorials. And its highly reusable components allows one to rapidly build up a Web application that is efficient as well as robust.
The name Yii (pronounced as [i:]) stands for easy, efficient and extensible
The Yii Framework builds upon learnings and findings from over 5 years of development of PRADO. If you already know PRADO you’ll get the hold of Yii quite fast.
The framework is already documented quite well in The Definitive Guide to Yii (a good place to start for beginners), in addition to complete class reference and an active forum where you can meet other developers.
Yii Framework also have a Extension Repository where developers can share their own components.
Last but not least, check out how Yii Framework beats the most used PHP frameworks out there in this performance benchmark.
If you have tried it or plan to try it I’ll be happy to hear about your experience with this framework.
5 Comments
pcdinh on December 5th, 2008
Yii benchmark is seriously flaw. die() call instead of echo does not make sense in a framework because it stop all the processing after the content is printed out. A framework life cycle is not like a script.
coloradoan on December 6th, 2008
I’d love to read more on the yii site.
Shame it’s been offline last 24 hours 
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Tomek on December 4th, 2008
Looks interesting, might consider to use it in my next project