10 Reasons to Choose the Yii Framework

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10 Reasons to Choose the Yii Framework
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• The development of Yii framework began on January
  1, 2008.
• It is an open source application that supports
  object oriented programming.
• It is also a component based MVC
  (Model-View-Controller) web application
  framework.
• The purpose for its development was to fix the
  drawbacks of a then widely used PRADO framework.
• PRADO was incapable of delivering a fast
  performance when it came to handling complex
  pages.

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Why Yii is Good

1. Easy to Install
2. Modern Technologies
3. Highly Extensible
4. Provision for Testing
5. Simplified Security
6. Shorter Development Time
7. Easily Tuned for Better Performance
8. Error Handling
9. Using Theme
10. Logging

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1. Easy to Install

• For every web developer time is of the essence.
• Therefore it is important that while handling a
  framework the installation time must be greatly
  reduced.
• Too much time spent on installation will lead to
  loss of money.
• Moreover it will cost the developers valuable
  time that they require to implement for the
  process of web development.
• This is because of an uncomplicated, easy
  installation and configuration process that comes
  with Yii.

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2) Modern Technologies

• Yii uses an OOP framework and takes advantage of
  PHPs more advanced features.
• This includes the latest static binding, SPL
  classes and interfaces and anonymous functions.

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3) Highly Extensible

• What makes Yii framework really popular is its
  ability to be tailored to fit your needs.
• Every component of the framework is virtually
  extensible.

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4) Provision for Testing

• Integration of great PHP testing framework
  like Codeception is what makes Yii highly
  desirable.
• This is made simple by the process of creating
  unit, functional and acceptance tests for your
  applications.

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5) Simplified Security

• Proper security is essential for any web
  application and this is where Yii can help you.
• Yii has a security application component that
  exposes several methods to help assist in
  creating a more secure application.

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6) Shorter Development Time

• Repetition tasks are unwelcomed as most
  developers consider them to be waste of time.
• But the fact that things cant be done without
  taking care of them, makes them important.
• This is where Yii helps you to spend less time on
  these tasks and more time customizing your
  application to suit your needs.
• Gii is a tool that is used for this purpose. It
  is web-based code scaffolding tool which allows
  you to quickly create codes.
• It also helps in templates for models,
  controllers, forums, modules, extensions and CRUD
  controlled actions and views.

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7) Easily Tuned for Better Performance

• The last thing that a web development company
  wants is a slow website.
• Yii tool can help bring more speed out of you
  application.
• Yii/caching/cache are its cache components, which
  allows you to choose whichever caching system you
  want while using a common API.

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8) Error Handling

• It has a complete error handling framework and is
  based on PHP 5 exception mechanism.
• When the application is created for the purpose
  of handling an incoming user request, the
  handleError method within handles PHP warnings
  and notices and it registers its handleException 
  method to handle uncaught PHP exceptions.
• When a PHP warning or some kind of uncaught
  exception that occurs during an application
  execution, one of the error handlers will take
  control and start the necessary error handling
  procedure.

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9) Using Theme

• Themes are a great way of systematically
  customizing the outlook of your web pages.
• The overall appearance of a Web application can
  be greatly enhanced with a proper theme.
• For Yii, each theme has a directory consisting of
  layout files, JavaScript files and CSS files.
•  It also has other relevant resource files
  including images, view files, and many more.
• The name of a theme is represented as its
  directory name. All the themes can be found under
  the same directory WebRoot/themes. Only one theme
  can be made active at a given time.

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10) Logging

• Yii has a logging feature that is both flexible
  and extensible.
• You classify the messages that are logged
  according to its log levels and message
  categories.
• By using level and category filters, selected
  messages can be further routed to different
  destinations, such as files, emails, browser
  windows, etc.

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