Yes, it is Yii -- a high-performance component-based PHP framework best for developing large-scale Web applications. Yii comes with a full stack of features, including MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, jQuery-based AJAX support, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, input validation, widgets, events, theming, Web services, and so on. Written in strict OOP, Yii is easy to use and is extremely flexible and extensible.
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We are very excited to announce the stable release of Yii Framework v1.1!
This release marks a major milestone in the Yii framework development. It represents more than one year's hard work of the developer team and the Yii community. We hereby thanks to everyone who supports and contributes to Yii.
In this release, we include numerous new features to the already powerful Yii framework. We added a PHPUnit-based testing framework so that developers can more easily write unit tests and functional tests; We added a form builder so that commonly used HTML forms can be built in terms of objects and thus enhance their reusability; We added support for changing skins for widgets globally; We also modified the way of performing relational ActiveRecord queries so that they are more intuitive and easier to use.
Besides all these core feature enhancements, in this release we also include a set of official Yii extensions (under the name of the zii project). In this library, users may find many useful and powerful extensions, such as the whole set jQuery UI widgets, data grid, list view, detail view, and so on. All these further help to further enhance your rapid development experience using Yii.
Since we posted the recruitment notice, we have received many applications for joining the Yii developer team. We hereby thank you all for your passion to join the team!
After serious discussion and investigation, we chose to have three new members: jonah, pestaa, sebas. They will work on the official extension library, core framework development, documentation and site development. With these new forces, we believe Yii will grow even faster and become better and better.
Welcome, new team members!
Our community member Imre Mehesz just released the episode 4 of his Yii Radio Podcast series. These casts cover the hot topics and recent activities about the Yii framework. You may check it out at yiiradiio.mehesz.net.
Another community member Sebastián Thierer is kindly enough to create and share this convenient Yii cheat sheet for every Yii user.
Thank you all for your continuous support and contribution to Yii!