We have finally switched our development platform to the Yii Web Programming Framework! For the past 3 years, all of our custom applications have been built around the Prado Component Framework for PHP 5, which by all accounts is still a wonderful framework. Actually, the author of Yii, Qiang Xue, is also the author of Prado.
So, why have we decided to change?
The switch to MVC:
MVC stands for Model-View-Controller and is a way of build applications that allows you to separate the HTML, Functional Logic and Business Logic. By doing this, the only page a visitor ever has access to is the index.php page, which initializes the application and therefore is a much more secure way of displaying your data.
Framework Speed:
When compared to the performance other popular frameworks, Yii literally leads the pack. Why is Yii so much faster? The developers of Yii have created the framework to use the “lazy loading technique”. This allows the framework to only load classes and objects when they are used for the first time. In comparison, other popular frameworks load many uneeded classes, thus losing speed and performance.
JQuery Integration:
Yes my friends, Yii is fully intrgrated with the JQuery Javascript Framework. This means that all built-in AJAX and Javascript Helpers implement JQuery syntax and by using Yii’s RegisterScript functionality, it’s extremely simple to add your own custom JQuery script or regular Javascript.
Look out for our future Yii powered applications!
For more information visit Yii’s official site!