For a long while now, I’ve been trying to approach CakePHP, and have somewhat enjoyed working with it, but it has been a long and rather troublesome path. CakePHP is a great framework, that much is certain, but it kept getting in my way, being a bit too automagic for my tastes, bugging me down with a lot of requirements in regards to conventions, and while those are good for many things, I found them to be in my way.
So when Daniel Hofstetter wrote about other possible frameworks, I decided to check them out, and I fell in love with one of them. Namely Yii Framework, which is another PHP framework based on the MVC design, and it has a lot of features that I like, but what I love about it is, that it took me only 2-3 days to understand how it’s all connected, and while CakePHP has a really nice community of people ready to try and help, with Yii, it seems that the main developer spends a lot of his time helping, getting people up and running with the framework, which I assume will enable the users to start helping with support, although I must admit that the documentation is excellent, and whenever a sensible suggestion to the documentation is made, it is carried out rather fast, usually within a few hours.
Now that I have a tool I feel comfortable using, I’ll probably start updating again more.
Good luck with Yii, and I hope you will write a bit about your Yii experiences
Indeed I will.
Have you had a chance to play around with it yet, btw?