It’s been a long time since I’ve written something here due to my stringent schedule. Fresh Start!
Earlier, I wrote about a web-application project which I was working on, based on a PHP-based framework called “Yii”. That was my first project developed on a core PHP framework, apart from WordPress and Joomla who have already established themselves as high-end Content Management Systems (CMS). Since then, it’s been a very intriguing experience for me.
The moment I installed Yii Framework and started working on it, I was so very amazed about how easy and time-saving it was to develop a web-application with Yii as it’s beating heart. Yii provided all such features I desired in my application, some of which are:
- High-performance with less loading time.
- Easy jQuery & AJAX integration for Form validation, updating page elements dynamically without refreshing, etc.
- Customized Themes, and Modules/Widgets integration.
- User-friendly interface, and debugging system.
For more details on the platform & it’s features from a practical point of view, please refer to my earlier blog post “Yii Framework (PHP) Explained: A Practical Approach”.
Recently, I received a review copy of the Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook by Alexander Makarov from it’s publishers, Packt. The best thing about the book is that it already have some ready-to-use solutions to general day-to-day problems, people usually face while developing their projects. It’s not just for the beginners who are willing to learn Yii, but also for the regular Yii developers as it’ll prove out to be a very handy guide.
I’ll be going through the entire book in the next few days, and will post a review here. For more details, Table of Contents and Sample Chapter, please refer to the official webpage of the book on PacktPub.com.
There haven’t been too many books published on Yii Framework in the past. Being a relatively new framework, Yii is gaining popularity at a rapid rate, and currently stands at a challenging position with other PHP Frameworks like Zend, CodeIgnitor, CakePHP, Kohana, Symfony, etc. for the top spot.
Yii is truly a very fascinating platform for PHP developers, and I highly recommend it’s usage for the development of a wide-variety of websites and web-applications.