Re: Yii Framework

On 23/05/12 03:35, hill180 wrote:
> This is not a holy war statement.
>
> After looking at Yii, getting the two books and reading and watching a
> lot of the tutorials, making a small app in Yii. I think I am going
> to stay with Cake.
>
> 1. Cakephp's Documentation is amazing.
> 2. Great Community
> 3. Familiar with CakePHP
> 4. CakePHP is a solid framework.
>
> I like Yii's Search Widgets and Ajax, but I think I would prefer doing
> the Ajax by hand. Don't need to worry about Composite Keys.
>
> What are your thoughts on Yii? Tried Yii? Please be constructive..
> I know this forum is bias to CakePHP, but I just want a general
> opinion if you tried it.
> --
> Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials
> http://tv.cakephp.org
> Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and
> help others with their CakePHP related questions.
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> cake-php+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this
> group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
Like you, I also tried Yii and came back to CakePHP. Apart from point 2
though, I do not totally agree with your points. Yii also has excellent
documentation and is also a solid framework.

I would go so far as to suggest that in comparison to Cake 1.x, Yii is
probably not a comparative framework since Yii does not support PHP 4
and utilises Lazy Loading of classes which is a feature that affects
Cake 1.x in respect to comparative speed ( speed is a criticism that is
always levelled at Cake in addition to being 'restrictive' ). Apart from
these I found the two to be remarkably similar. Both have model
behaviours, both have Components, both have Plugins, both have themes,
views and layouts and since Cake 2.0 cake also has lazy loading and
since 2.1 also has the ability to wrap layouts in other layouts.

I do prefer the Models of Yii in that each model object represents a
record and you get an object back instead of Cake's arrays ( a feature
on Cake 3.0's roadmap ).

The Widgets of Yii, I both love and hate. From a developers point of
view they are great since you just use it and it sorts out the
Javascript you need in the header and body without you needing to worry
about it. From a web designers point of view however, they are not so
good. The whole point of MVC is supposed to be that web designers can
work on views whilst developers sort out models and controllers. In Yii
therefore, web designers need to have a detailed knowledge of Yii
widgets which often require a lot of configuration to get them how you
want unless you are happy with what you are given out of the box.

All in all, I do not think Cake 2.x and Yii are too far apart and each
has it's strengths and weaknesses depending on your viewpoint.

--
Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org
Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions.


To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
cake-php+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php