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Yii2 Notes

Yii is an open source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework. Yii is pronounced as "Yee" and in Chinese it means "simple and evolutionary" and it can be an acronym for "Yes It Is!".

Salient features

  • One of the top 5 PHP framework.
  • Fast, secure and efficient PHP framework.
  • Framework is written fully in OOP.
  • Higly customizable code

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge of PHP and OOP
  • Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Basic knowledge of database and SQL

Features

Why you should learn Yii2

  • Very fast
  • Easily customizable and extensible
  • Provides high security
  • Sutiable for small and large applications
  • Very powerful RESTful support
  • In the list of top 5 PHP frameworks
  • Quite demanded on US and EU market
  • Routing, Validation, etc

Some Important Features

  • MVC (Model View Controller)
  • Built-in Bootstrap for CSS
  • Has basic and advanced versions
  • Uses PDO and ActiveRecord
  • Works fine with both SQL and NoSQL databases (Eg. MongoDB)
  • UI Widgets of BootStrap
  • Built-in client side validation
  • Powerful routing
  • RESTful API support
  • Powerful debugger
  • RBAC system (Role Based Access Control)
  • GII is used to generate code for CRUD (Create Read Update Delete), Model, etc.
  • Easily customizable

and more.

Laravel doesn't have built-in client-side validation. There is some 3rd party package for Laravel.