Yii Framework (PHP) Explained – A Practical Approach

Hey friends..I’m using Yii Framework for quite a few days now, and things which I found impressive about Yii framework are:

1. Easy 2-step Installation.
2. Clean and thorough Tutorials and Documentation with large Community base. In fact, if you’re willing to start using Yii, follow this tutorial by Larry Ulman – The best I found so far, on the Internet, from a beginner’s perspective.
3. Uses MVC (Model-View-Controller) Framework structure, which is very popular these days among Web applications. I’ll be explaining MVC in a separate post later on.
4. It generates Model, View, and Controller files for your application project by just accessing the database. So, after the installation, the next step you need to do is to create a Database schema for your application, and use the Gii tool provided with Yii Framework files, to generate those files from the Database schema –  The part I liked most about Yii. Thus, most of the basic frame of your application is generated by Yii within minutes, without requiring your assistance in writing a single bit of PHP code. Other things it generate by default, are a Captcha enabled Contact form, and a Simple Login system, which can be customized as per your requirements.
5. Yii also provides built-in jQuery support, and supports AJAX for many operations such as Form validation, File Upload, dynamically updating page portion, etc.
6. Supports extensions to enhance the functionality of your application. There are increasingly number of extensions available on the Yii Framework’s website.

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