In IT world, condensed terminologies mushroom so blatantly that one is often struck dumb till someone tells him or her any particular abbreviated form actually means. For instance, who could ever guess that an open source PHP framework that serves as an ideal tool for developing Web 2.0 would be termed Yii that stands for ‘Yes it is’.

However, loaded with AJAX enabled widgets and integrated with jQuery, Yii much helps in handling complex web pages. What is more, it helps creating interactive designs while ensuring rapid development processes. Furthermore, as it is fully based on the scripting language ‘OOPs’, Yii proves fairly easy to use, too.And lastly, it is designed to be flexible, modular, effective and extensible. As Yii reduces development time quite substantially, it can be used for a wide range of web development projects – starting from a simple app to any complex web portal. Needless to say, there are multiple advantages of Yii framework in PHP development that are listed below on this blog post.

Major Advantages of Yii Framework

• Since it is based on MVC or Model View Controller, Yii turns web development into a thoroughgoing activity through clean Separation of Concerns (SoC)

• Yii process of creating forms (taking inputs and validating data) is fairly simple and effortless, too. As a matter of fact, the wide range of widgets and validators of Yii arranges form input while validating it.

• Yii makes web development easier and faster due to the in-built authentication and RBAC or Role Based Access Control supported authorization.

• Functioning as one of the most secure PHP frameworks, Yii protects websites from hackers. Moreover, a wide range of security mechanisms counteract attacks on the web applications, such as XSS, SQL injection, CSRF, tampering with cookies and many more.

• Yii inhibits the long and complex task of writing repetitive SQL queries by way of permitting programmers to transform database in relation of objects.

• Armed with rich set of AJAX enabled widgets, Yii help developers in designing most efficient User Interfaces.

• With Yii framework, handling errors is breeze. The log can be saved systematically and can also be accessed categorically.

• Yii has very good tools that support PHP Programmers to generate code sans any error. It also gives sustained power with standard code controlling.

• As Yii core team releases many new features on a regular basis, developers gain the benefit of using these features and creating innovative solutions for their clientele.

• The scaffolding features of Yii are quite effective in application development, and lastly
  Being an open source framework, Yii provides an extension library that comprises many user contributed components. At the same time, this opens up a non-ending feature list to Yii platform, too.