Reasons to choose Yii2 framework for your next project

January 10, 2022
3 min read
PHP, Web Development, Yii2
mysql php web development yii yii2

Choosing right framework for next project seems not easy when you are familiar with more than one.

Choosing PHP framework is depend upon your programming skills and knowledge of particular and also depend upon the complexity of project.

The article is based on our own experience, and we love all other php framework too.

There are plenty of reason to choose Yii2 over others, but here only few of them will discuss.

What Yii site says about itself

Yii is a fast, secure, & efficient.

Flexible yet pragmatic.
Works right out of the box.
Has reasonable defaults.

Fast

Yii gives you the maximum functionality by adding the least possible overhead

Secure

Sane defaults and built-in tools helps you write solid and secure code.

Efficient

Write more code in less time with simple, yet powerful APIs and code generation.

1. Gii

Gii is very powerful tool for code generation.

Once you done installation of Yii framework and created your database table, just open Gii in web browser and take advantage of fast code generation.

It will save your many hours in development while create CRUD pages for your db tables.

2. Form Validation

Form validation is very basic need for any developer, and Yii provide you very robust and nice way to manage all your form validations.

You can write rules in your models and manage client-side and also server-side rules at one place.

Even you can create your own custom validation function.

you can read more about validations and rules at input-validation and core-validators

3. Database Migrations

Writing Migration is always a good practice and it even more needed if you working on large scale project with other developers.

You and other developer just need to keep update the migration code to update the database changes.

Yii comes with CLI command to creating and using migrations.

4. RESTFULL- Ready

Yii provide you better way to write REST APIs and and you can create CRUD or other with very few lines of code.

You can control response and url from config as well.

You can read more details about Yii RETFULL web services here

5. Extensive and Scalable

One of the best feature of Yii framework is that you can scale it up to your own sky.

Its is highly extensive.

You can create components, modules, extensions and also you create your own app inside it.

6. Roles And Permissions

Yii have its own Roles and Permission Access Control (RBAC).

You can write few logics and you can easily create roles and permission based system and you can assign roles and permission to users for their desired access.

Conclusion:

There are many more reasons that make Yii framework one of my favourite php framework.

I have write only those that i think most beneficial in development process.

Thanks for reading.