Simple slide about introduction to yii. I used it in knowledge sharing session with my teammates. Cover why yii, what rocks on yii, and dark sides of yii.

1. Yii

2. Outline Why Yii? What rocks on Yii? Dark sides of Yii

3. Why Yii? Better performance compare to other php frameworks Awesome documentation and tutorial (included in source code package) Less code More features compare to CodeIgniter

4. http://www.yiiframework.com/performance/

5. What’s rock in Yii? Gii ActiveRecord (+Relational) Built in authentication User Friendly Url

6. Gii

7. Gii Create CRUD in a blink!

8. Gii Define table Use model generator Use CRUD generator Voila!

9. ActiveRecord (+Relational) $post = Post::model()->findByPk(2); $comments = $post->comments; foreach($comments as $r){ echo $r->content; } It works! Requirement: Declare foreign key in MySQL Use gii Model Generator

10. Built in Authentication Yii provide login form We only need to modify components/UserIdentity to give additional information in user session

11. User Friendly Url http://localhost/yii/test/createPost

12. Many More… Caching Theming Etc …

13. Dark Sides of Yii Slower learing curve