What is Yii Framework?

Yii is an open source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework.

YII stands for Yes It Is

Yii is a high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications.

Yii helps Web developers build complex applications and deliver them on-time.

Yii is a free, open-source Web application development framework written in PHP5 that promotes clean, DRY design and encourages rapid development. It works to streamline your application development and helps to ensure an extremely efficient, extensible, and maintainable end product.

Yii Features

1)Fast
2)CRUD Feature
3)Database tables as objects
4) Easy Form Validation
5) Great support for Jquery and ajax.
6) Inbuilt Authentication and Authorization
7) Theming
8) Web Services(API Support).
9) Caching
10) Error Handling
11) Security
12) Extensions
13) Testing
14) Great Documentation

Video Tutorial for Yii Framework

What is Zend Framework?

Zend Framework is an open source, object oriented web application framework for PHP 5. Zend Framework is often called a 'component library', because it has many loosely coupled components that you can use more or less independently.

But Zend Framework also provides an advanced Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation that can be used to establish a basic structure for your Zend Framework applications.

Why Zend Framework?

1)Free and open source framework
2)Extreme Simplicity
3)High productivity
4)Flexible Architecture
5)Supported by more than 300 contributor, include IBM and other major companies

Zend Framework Features

1)All components are fully object-oriented PHP 5 and are E_STRICT compliant
2)Use-at-will architecture with loosely coupled components and minimal interdependencies
3)Extensible MVC implementation supporting layouts and PHP-based templates by default
4)Support for multiple database systems and vendors, including MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, IBMDB2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Informix Dynamic Server.
5)Email composition and delivery, retrieval via mbox, Maildir, POP3 and IMAP4
6)Flexible caching sub-system with support for many types of backends, such as memory or a file system.

Video for Why need choose Zend Framework over others?

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