Yii is the new kid on the block in the world of PHP but is based on a strong legacy of proven technologies and as such presents a very strong, flexible and extensible framework on which to build large-scale web applications. Yii has been built with the developer in mind and takes care of many of the key features that are required in todays web applications including ‘MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, jQuery-based AJAX support, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, input validation, widgets, events, theming, Web services, and so on’ (taken from the Yii homepage http://www.yiiframework.com/). The built in command line interface allows rapid development of CRUD based operations and is already being referred to as Rails for PHP. Theming Yii installations is easy and this demonstration aims to introduce the basics of Yii and show how quickly a simple but fully functional web site can be built from a default installation.
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11.Oct.2009 at 12:53 by
A good introduction to Yii, Steve did a live demo building a blog application in 30 mins! A lot of code flashed before my eyes but Steve showed how you can quickly build something with the framework. Thanks Steve.
Sorry but i was very disappointed with this talk. Like previous poster has mentioned it was far too copy-paste-centric. Had really hoped for a good overview of the framework, its features/advantages over alternatives etc but we got none of this. Disappointment was final when i questioned the speaker about why he had promoted the framework as being aimed at "enterprise level websites", I asked what features exactly made this the case. Unfortunately the speaker couldn't really identify any.
11.Oct.2009 at 20:16 by
Although I was sold on the idea behind Yii the talk centred around Steve copying and pasting code into the project and giving a brief explanation about what is was doing. I got a bit lost in several places and didn't really know what was going on. However, I was impressed by the abilities of Yii and will be giving it a more serious look in the future.
Given such a small amount of time, Steve did a great job of showing just how fast you can get a simple web application off the ground with Yii. I am certainly interested and am looking at using it for some projects I have coming up.
The only criticism I have is perhaps Steve being a little unprepared for some of the questions. Anyone could go find out at the website but we're all far too lazy for that, especially just after lunch! :P
I think this kind of talk is much better suited to an hour at least where you can break up the copy-pasting with further information but we can't have everything now can we?
All in all, a great talk about what appears to be a great framework. Good job, Steve!
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11.Oct.2009 at 12:53 by
A good introduction to Yii, Steve did a live demo building a blog application in 30 mins! A lot of code flashed before my eyes but Steve showed how you can quickly build something with the framework. Thanks Steve.