Introduction to YII framework
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This document discusses the Yii PHP framework. It begins with an agenda that outlines topics like introduction, architecture, technologies, features, comparisons to other frameworks, and reasons to choose Yii. The document then covers these topics, providing details on Yii's architecture, how it uses technologies like PRADO and jQuery, features such as caching and form builders, how it compares favorably to frameworks like Laravel and CodeIgniter, and reasons one might select Yii like its straightforward development and large community.
Introduction to YII framework
- 1. Why Yii? Presenter: Naincy Gupta Mindfire Solutions
- 2. Introduction Architecture Technologies Features of Yii Comparison with other PHP Frameworks Why to choose? Agenda
- 3. Introduction YII is a framework for creating Web applications using PHP 5 (or greater). High-performance framework and good for developing Web applications. YII Framework is best because it is based on DRY (Don't repeat yourself) design pattern that is why is called fast application development framework. YII is designed from the beginning to fit for serious Web application development. YII is a pure OOP framework.
- 4. Architecture
- 5. Architecture Flow: 1.) Pre-initialize the application with CApplication::preinit(); 2.) Set up class autoloader and error handling 3.) Register core application components 4.) Load application configuration 5.) Initialize the application - Register application behaviours - Load static application components 6.) Raise on Begin Request event 7.) Process the user request - Resolve the user request - Create controller - Run controller
- 6. Technologies YII built with help of Qiang Xue made use of severa; other web technologies to enhance power of YII Qiang Xue used. PRADO is major source in development of YII YII referenced its implementation of the active recprd design pattern for its ORM layer. Joomla and Symphony were also used in development in YII jQuery is integrated in YII
- 7. Features of YII Great Integration with industry standards CSS and JS frameworks like jQuery, BootStrap, etc. Made it easy to create modern responsive designs. YII also hepls in maintaining the application design as recommended by YII, which helps in maintaining application security. Migration utility provide great control over Database changes, will help us to upgrade / downgrade application version on differnt installations. Large collection of widgets and third party components. Custom Theme Management YII caching support is very handy with high traffic websites Unit Testing Frameworks
- 8. - PHP5 MVC - Powerful Cache - Nice API - RBAC, auth framework - Migrations - Console - Form Builder - Error Handler, Log - Themes - GII - Test Framework - Widgets - Well documented - Friendly community
- 10. Features YII Laravel Symphony2 CI Version 1.1.14 4.1.24 2.4 2.1.4 Requirement >= PHP 5.1.0 >= 5.3.7 with mcrypt ext. >=PHP5.3.2 >= PHP 5.1.6 Cache Storage APC, MemCache, XCache, ZendPlatform File System, Database, Memcached, APC, Redis, Xcache, WinCache, Memory APC, eAccelerator, XCache File, apc, memcached, xcache Testing Library PHPUnit, Selenium PHPUNIT PHPUNIT PHPUnit (In development) Security XSS, Xsrf, Sql Injection XSS, Xsrf, Sql Injection XSS, Xsrf, Sql Injection XSS, Xsrf, Sql Injection Template System PHP and Prado's - Others using Ext. (Razor, Smarty, Twig, etc) Blade, PHP, Custom PHP, Twig PHP, Simple template parser "{var_name}" Logging Management Yes Yes PSR-3 compliant
- 11. Why to Choose?? When we choose any Framework for development then what we want: - development should be staright forward - Not do complex stuff for web apps - Easy Learning and easy to debug and fix. - Less configuration - As simple API possible Here, answer is YII. Yii has all these features and many more benefits that we already discussed. Some more benefits are: - Easy to customize the application as per customers requirements. - Provides great command line tool that help us create complicated CRON jobs. - Data Cache and Performance
- 12. Questions?? Mail me your questions at [email protected]
- 13. Thank you