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Yii Framework (PHP) Explained – A Practical Approach

Hey friends..I’m using Yii Framework for quite a few days now, and things which I found impressive about Yii framework are: Easy 2-step Installation. Clean and thorough Tutorials and Documentation with large Community base. In fact, if you’re willing to start using Yii, follow this  tutorial by Larry Ulman – The best I found so far, on the Internet, from a beginner’s perspective. Uses  MVC (Model-View-Controller) Framework structure, which is very popular these days among Web applications. I’ll be explaining MVC in a separate post later on. It generates Model, View, and Controller files for your application project by just accessing the database. So, after the installation, the next step you need to do is to create a Database schema for your application, and use the  Gii tool provided with Yii Framework files, to generate those files from the Database schema –   The part I liked most about Yii . Thus, most of the basic frame of your application is generated by Yii within