Yii2 VS app

Compare Yii2 vs app and see what are their differences.

Yii2

Yii 2: The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework (by yiisoft)

app

Yii3 application template (by yiisoft)
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Yii2 app
32 13
14,182 215
0.0% 1.9%
9.2 6.7
7 days ago about 2 months ago
PHP PHP
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Yii2

Posts with mentions or reviews of Yii2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-13.
  • Top 12 PHP Frameworks For Web Development in 2024
    13 projects | dev.to | 13 Feb 2024
    Yii is one of the oldest PHP frameworks, acronym as Yes It Is! It has 14.2k stars and 7k forks on GitHub. It is a fast, secure, and flexible PHP framework for web development, especially for building MVC architecture websites. It is an Object-Oriented PHP framework that requires knowledge of inheritance, polymorphism, etc.
  • 🔥 Yii Database abstraction release
    8 projects | /r/PHP | 12 Apr 2023
  • Creating an application # 5 - install using sub directory
    2 projects | /r/yii3 | 14 Jan 2023
    In Yii Framework we have a middleware that will allow us to access our applications without the need to point the web server to the public directory of each template, so we will use the middleware SubFolder::class.
  • Slim, possívelmente o framework ideal para quem vem do Golang
    14 projects | dev.to | 14 Jan 2023
  • Assets #2 - installation
    5 projects | /r/yii3 | 13 Jan 2023
    asset-packagist: This is the traditional Yii2 way, here we will add the following to our composer.json.
  • Assets #1 - definitions
    5 projects | /r/yii3 | 13 Jan 2023
    It is often preferable to manage Yii Assets programmatically. For example, when you use the widget in a page, it will automatically include the required css and javascript files, instead of asking you to manually find these files and include them. And when you upgrade the widget to a new version, it will automatically use the new version of the Yii Assets. In this tutorial, we will describe the powerful Yii Assets management capability provided in Yii Framework .
  • Creating an application #2 - the concept of configuration
    2 projects | /r/yii3 | 13 Jan 2023
    As we can see in the example above, we have defined the configuration of our packages in files .php (it doesn’t matter if they are YiiFramework packages or not), this allows us to define the configuration of each component in a very simple way to understand.
  • Templates available in Yii3.
    11 projects | /r/yii3 | 11 Jan 2023
    Now if we want to create an extension, under the code standard used in the Yii Framework v.3 packages, we can use yiisoft/template, provides us the tools necessary for our code to comply with good coding standards they are:
  • Creating an application in Yii3 - part 3 the container di.
    5 projects | dev.to | 6 Jan 2023
    Now we understand how to do any configuration of any YiiFramework package or external, it is not necessary to have a single long and complex configuration file, we can organize it according to the group of configurations and Yii config will do the work for you, as well as the container it applies the definitions for you, with the automatic wiring facility in controllers, which makes it easy to access any container dependency without the need to use static access to it, or depend on the container itself.
  • Creating an application in Yii3.
    4 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2023
    YiiFramework it has a powerful tool to make configurations easier, when configuring the container di, we present Yii Config, your solution for building configurations.

app

Posts with mentions or reviews of app. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-20.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Yii2 and app you can also consider the following projects:

Slim Framework - Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.

Laravel - Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

CodeIgniter - Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)

Phalcon - High performance, full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C extension.

ReactPHP Promises Testing - PHPUnit assertions for testing ReactPHP promises

CodeIgniter4 - Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)

Nuxt 3 - Old repo of Nuxt 3 framework, now on nuxt/nuxt

Symfony - The Symfony PHP framework

Spiral Framework - High-Performance PHP Framework

CakePHP - CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository

Kraken PHP - Asynchronous & Fault-tolerant PHP Framework for Distributed Applications.

Zend Framework 2