Comments on: Thoughts on Yii

By: AngelOD

AngelOD — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:41:22 +0000

Thank you. I should have written more about Yii, and with the impending review of a book more posts should be appearing.

By: Elouise

Elouise — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:05:52 +0000

Heck of a job there, it asolubtely helps me out.

By: Jitesh Gawali

Jitesh Gawali — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:17:25 +0000

Hi, I am Jitesh Gawali, and I work with Packt.

I seek reviewers for the book recently released by Packt: Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook, by Alexander Makarov. More information about the book can be found here: http://www.packtpub.com/yii-1-1-using-php-framework-application-development-cookbook/book

If you interested in reviewing the book, then I’d be glad to send you an e-copy of it. You can contact me on jiteshg@packtpub.com for more details.

Thanks!

By: kael

kael — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:00:24 +0000

well, IMHO the best way to learn something is to actually do it. my first Yii “exposure” was a project with a client. imagine that! i barely even mastered php, i haven’t even tackled PHP classes at that time, yet i was forced to. Yii is an Object Oriented Programming framework… and most of the time i spent my time scratching my head and browsing the forums.. i mean I HAD NO IDEA WHATSOEVER. Many times i wanted to give the project up, but then after a few sleepless nights and a million dozes of decaf coffee, i managed to get the hang of it.. Yii is really fast, and by fast i mean like it generates Models, controllers, views, and modules for you! no more brain-hurting hardcoding. well there still is, but the point here is, if you want to learn I suggest trying to learn with intense pressure. In this way you might push yourself beyond what you think you could actually do.

kudos!

By: AngelOD

AngelOD — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:08:51 +0000

@mahdi: Which problem? I didn’t have a problem with the amount of tutorials available for it. There’s quite a lot available, or rather, not a lot, but both the blog tutorial and the definitive guide are rather long and thorough.

By: mahdi

mahdi — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:50:19 +0000

hi
every thing is good with yii but there is a big whole in yii
Tutorials! ye there is not enough tutorials for it and don’t know how to pass this problem!

By: AngelOD

AngelOD — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:53:46 +0000

Well.. For my first, smaller project, that I used to learn Yii, I just went with the Yii Blog Tutorial, coupled with the Definitive Guide to Yii. They’re both really good, and together they explain most of the things I wanted to know. There were a few things I ran into, but I either found the answer to those in the Yii Cookbook, or on the forum.

So to answer your question.. You should start out by generating the template project, set up the database, then create models and controllers, and start modifying the code to suit your needs. Once you get started, you’ll likely found that it’s incredibly easy to do, but you need to get into the whole MVC mindset first, I think.

By: Henqi

Henqi — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:20:07 +0000

Hi,

I am 3 years exp with PHP, used to Dreamweaver ro create the php project. Haven’t used any framework before, until my current project run bigger and bigger, I found problem when adding new module.

So I decide to use a framework. I have read through the recent Yii tutorial, and quiet understand what it is talking about. But I still have no idea where to start the project. Should I start from modify using the template project generated by Yiic ?

Any advice are really appreaciated…..

By: AngelOD

AngelOD — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:29:00 +0000

I won’t lie to you.. Yes, you will have to recreate most of your work in Yii, or at least alter quite a bit of it, but on the other hand.. Not only will that be an excellent way to learn how to use Yii.. It will also give you a chance to compare Yii to CakePHP, and see if it works as well for you as it did for me.

By: thomas

thomas — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:45:11 +0000

Thnak you for your notes.

I’m also switching to YIi right now and hopefully it’s a right choice.

I have the feeling that they are less things that are done for me by the framework and I’m a bit scared I’ll have to re-code a lot of the things I did for cakephp, but the cleanness and speed of Yii is really appealing.

Good luck with your projects.