The past several years have marked a significant 'framework boom', and almost
everyone involved in web application development these days is a part of a new
generation of 'framework boomers'. Web development frameworks help jumpstart
your application by immediately delivering the core foundation and plumbing
needed to quickly turn your ideas scribbled on the whiteboard into a functional
and production-ready code. With all of the common features expected from web
applications today and available framework options that meet these expectations,
there is little reason to code your next web application from scratch. A modern,
flexible, and extensible framework is almost as essential a tool as the programming
language itself to today's web developer. Moreover, when the two are particularly
complementary, the results are an extremely powerful toolkit: Java and Spring, Ruby
and Rails, C# and .NET, and PHP and Yii.
Yii is the brainchild of its founder Qiang Xue who started the development of this
open source framework on January 1st, 2008. Prior to this, Qiang had previously
developed and maintained the PRADO framework for many years. The years of
experience and user feedback cultivated from the PRADO project solidified the
need for a much easier, more extensible and more efficient PHP5-based framework
to meet the ever-growing needs of application developers. The initial alpha version
of Yii was officially released to meet these needs in October of 2008. Its extremely
impressive performance metrics when compared to other PHP-based frameworks
immediately drew very positive attention. On December 3rd, 2008, Yii 1.0 was
officially released and as of March 14th, 2010, the latest production-ready version
is 1.1.2. It has a growing development team and continues to gain popularity among
PHP developers everyday. We feel that with just a little help from the information
contained in this book, you will soon understand why.
The name Yii (an acronym for Yes, it is, pronounced as Yee or [ji:]) stands for
easy, efficient, and extensible. Yii is a high-performance, component-based, web
application framework written in PHP 5. Yii makes it easier to create and maintain
large-scale web applications. It also makes them more efficient and extensible. Let's
take a quick look at each of these characteristics of Yii in turn.
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